A New Vision for Islamic Pasts and Futures

• Main Author: Bashir, Shahzad (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2022
• Subjects: Islamic studies; Society & culture: general; Historiography; Islamic studies; historiography; Islamic history; Islamic art; Islamic culture; post-orientalist; orientalism; decolonization; activism; temporality; visual culture; born digital; Brown University; philosophy; time; ontology
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This groundbreaking, born-digital work invites readers to imagine Islam anew. Moving beyond conventional theological, nativist, and orientalist approaches, Shahzad Bashir decenters Islam from a geographical identification with the Middle East, an articulation through men's authority alone, and...