The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-E Ahmad

by Hamid Dabashi

Book Overview

In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at large. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1474479294
• ISBN13: 9781474479295
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 9.2"