As recent events indicate, Iranian, Middle Eastern, and Islamic
politics more broadly have been deeply influential in world
affairs. Hamid Dabashi has been a highly visible and prominent
commentator on these affairs, explaining, interpreting, and
providing a critical perspective. This volume gathers together his
most influential and insightful writings.
As one of the foremost contemporary public intellectuals and
scholars of our time, Dabashi's interests and writings span
subjects ranging from Islamic philosophy and political ideology to
Iranian art and Persian literature, from Sufism and Orientalism to
Iranian and world cinema and contemporary Arab and Muslim visual
arts; and from postcolonial theory and globalization to imperialism
and public affairs. There is a direct connection between his
theoretical innovations and the angle of his public interventions
on the urgent global issues of the day. This book brings together
some of his most important writings, especially those that offer
new ways of understanding Islam, Iran, Islamist ideology, global
art, and the condition of global modernity. The book shows the
underlying conceptual themes that unify Dabashi's wide-ranging and
brilliantly insightful corpus.
Dabashi combines deep knowledge of the subject matter about
which he writes, and highly refined sociological, hermeneutical,
and cultural interpretive skills, moving far beyond the limiting,
distorted, and intellectually stifling character of reigning
absolutist conventions. He places existing authoritative frameworks
under close scrutiny in order to produce novel and penetrating
insights. These essays reflect historical and geographical worlds
that are best viewed when Hamid Dabashi's work is read as a whole,
which this one- volume work makes possible for the first time.
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