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About the Author
Hamid Dabashi is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York. He is the author of over 25 books and focuses on the social and intellectual history of Islam, both medieval and modern. Among his most recent books are The World of Persia Literary Humanism (2014); Can Non-Europeans Think? (2015); Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene (2015); Iran without Borders: Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation (2016); Iran: Rebirth of a Nation (2017); The Shahnameh: The Persian Epic as World Literature (2019); The Last Muslim Intellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (2021). He is a globally recognised critical thinker on contemporary affairs and a regular columnist for Aljazeera.
Reviews
"Hamid Dabashi's remarkable work on Iranian 'cosmopolitan humanism' has already expanded the parameters of discussions on non-western thought to highlight the quest for an anticolonial modernity as integral to its global reach. In this well-balanced and elegantly written volume, Dabashi treats Al-e Ahmad, a preeminent intellectual of his time, as a pioneering -anticolonial theorist who Islamist thinkers, such as Ali Shari'ati, would only later develop an elective affinity for, in the process recasting him an anti-western nativist. Dabashi situates Al-e Ahmad alongside other anticolonial thinkers to remind us that Al-e Ahmad could not have anticipated Shari'ati would have taken him all the way to the borderlines of a committed Islamist ideologue." Along the way, this provocative work raises important questions about the evolution of an anticolonial canon and the crystallization of sectarian divisions."" -Ali Mirsepassi, Albert Gallatin Research Excellence Professor, New York University
Book Information
ISBN 9781474479295
Author Hamid Dabashi
Format Paperback
Page Count 344
Imprint Edinburgh University Press
Publisher Edinburgh University Press