This book explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923
69) arguably the most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his
time and contends that he was the last Muslim intellectual to have
articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism, before the
militant Islamism of the last half a century degenerated into
sectarian politics and intellectual alienation from the world at
large. Hamid Dabashi places Al-e Ahmad beside other towering
critical thinkers of his time, showing how he personified a state
of Muslim anticolonial modernity that has now disappeared behind
the smokescreen of sectarian politics. This unprecedented
engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what
Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'. The Last
Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spectrum of
anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and adding
a critical Muslim thinker to it an urgent task, if the future of
Muslim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms
beyond the dead-end of its current sectarian predicament.
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