Islam and Anarchism - Mohamed Abdou

Islam and Anarchism

Relationships and Resonances

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Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2022
Pluto Press (Verlag)
978-0-7453-4191-0 (ISBN)
105,95 inkl. MwSt
A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism
'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. Puar



Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.



Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs - that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes 'Anarcha-Islam'.



Constructing a decolonial, non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist, sexist, racist, ageist, queerphobic and ableist inequalities in both post- and neo-colonial societies like Egypt, and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.

Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. His twenty years of activist research and experience centers on Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, as well as his participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011.

Preface

Acknowledgments

A Note on Transliteration and Translation

1. Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present

The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities

A Match to a Powder Keg

Islām and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island’s Newest Social Movements

Positionality: Who Is Speaking?

A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed

2. Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Islām’s Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness

On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments

Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtihād

Deleuze and Guattari’s Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) – Capitalism (Mommy) – and Me/Us

3. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām

Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Left-Side

Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām

Modern Uses of Waṭaniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and Īmāmah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons

Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics

4. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām

Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Right-Side

Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām: Micro- and Macro-Economics

As Patients We Come to Each Other’s Aid

5. Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance

The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence

Violence, Jihād, and Qitāl in Islām: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire

From the Deception of “Nonviolence” to Red, Black, and Brown Power

Liberatory Victory

6. Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir

Notes

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 140 x 216 mm
Gewicht 596 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Östliche Philosophie
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Systeme
Sozialwissenschaften Politik / Verwaltung Politische Theorie
ISBN-10 0-7453-4191-8 / 0745341918
ISBN-13 978-0-7453-4191-0 / 9780745341910
Zustand Neuware
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