A new vision for Islamic pasts and futures
This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, Shahzad Bashir decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, an articulation through men's authority alone, and...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
The MIT Press
2022.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009746855606719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction
- Islam
- Time
- Conceptual Framework
- 1. Constructing Time
- A Walk in Time
- Events and Narratives
- Tropes
- Life Stories
- Politics
- Modern Global Times
- 2. The Web of History
- Jerusalem in Java
- Inadequacy of Timelines
- Spacetimes
- Genealogies
- Events Relived
- Enduring Forms
- 3. Transformative Moments
- A Roaming Orientalist
- The Modern (Historical) Condition
- The Mongol Catalysis
- Varieties of 'Islamic' Times
- Orientations to the Past
- 4. Lifetimes
- A Woman's Voice
- An Edifice of Time
- Documenting the Living Dead
- Stories from the Americas
- Self, Family, Nation
- 5. Pasts Envisioned
- The Skyline of Istanbul
- Frescoes in the Desert
- Beautiful Violence
- The Gift of Presence
- The Missing Image
- The Grave of Time
- 6. Historical Fictions
- An Ambiguous Adventure
- The Arab Renaissance
- A New Past Nation
- The Premodern Epic
- Fictional Truth
- 7. Looking Back to the Future
- The Grave of a Living King
- Anticipating Past Futures
- A Resurrection
- A Lost-Found Nation
- Reading the Stars
- Refugee Horizons - Epilogue.
