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Sufi Deleuze - Secretions of Islamic Atheism (Hardcover)
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Sufi Deleuze - Secretions of Islamic Atheism (Hardcover)
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"There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,"
Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is
Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity "secretes" atheism "more
than any other religion," however, reflects the limits of their
archive. Theological projects seeking to engage Deleuze remain
embedded within Christian theologies and intellectual histories;
whether they embrace, resist, or negotiate with Deleuze's atheism,
the atheism in question remains one extracted from Christian
theology, a Christian atheism. In Sufi Deleuze, Michael Muhammad
Knight offers an intervention, engaging Deleuzian questions and
themes from within Islamic tradition. Even if Deleuze did not think
of himself as a theologian, Knight argues, to place Deleuze in
conversation with Islam is a project of comparative theology and
faces the challenge of any comparative theology: It seemingly
demands that complex, internally diverse traditions can speak as
coherent, monolithic wholes. To start from such a place would not
only defy Islam's historical multiplicity but also betray Deleuze's
model of the assemblage, which requires attention to not only the
organizing and stabilizing tendencies within a structure but also
the points at which a structure resists organization, its internal
heterogeneity, and unpredictable "lines of flight." A Deleuzian
approach to Islamic theology would first have to affirm that there
is no such thing as a universal "Islamic theology" that can speak
for all Muslims in all historical settings, but rather a
multiplicity of power struggles between major and minor forces that
contest each other over authenticity, authority, and the making of
"orthodoxy." The discussions in Sufi Deleuze thus highlight Islam's
extraordinary range of possibilities, not only making use of
canonically privileged materials such as the Qur'an and major
hadith collections, but also exploring a variety of marginalized
resources found throughout Islam that challenge the notion of a
singular "mainstream" interpretive tradition. To say it in
Deleuze's vocabulary, Islam is a rhizome.
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