What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world

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Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.

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Book Title: Being a Muslim in the World
Authors: Hamid Dabashi
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137301291
Publisher: Palgrave Pivot New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2013
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-30128-4Published: 30 October 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-30129-1Published: 29 October 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 166
Topics: Middle Eastern Politics, Imperialism and Colonialism, Political Philosophy, Social Philosophy, World History, Global and Transnational History, Sociology of Religion

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