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Lokale Moderne: Agency, Austausch und die Entstehung des modernen Mittleren Ostens
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LOCAL MODERNITY: AGENCY, ENTANGLEMENT, AND THE MAKING OF THE MODERN MIDDLE EAST Islamic Studies has long formed part of Oriental Studies, which since Edward Said's devastating critique of Orientalism, has been widely perceived as colonial knowledge at its worst. Rather than deconstructing Orientalism yet again, I suggest moving from a postcolonial perspective with its heavy emphasis on colonial knowledge to a decolonial perspective, one that first, focuses on the interplay of local and "foreign" agents and their respective repertories and agendas; second, systematically considers local knowledge antedating the colonial era of which postcolonial theory tends to be oblivious; and third, thinks in the categories of encounters and entanglements rather than of hierachical binary relationships pitting the European colonizer v. the non-European colonized. The multifocal approach is particularly suited to understanding the quest for Ottoman modernity in the nineteenth century and Islamic modernity in the twentieth. A case study taken from interwar Egypt - the "Islamic" project to form Muslim man - serves to illustrate the dynamics at play.
Product details
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Edition:
- 1
- Number of Pages:
- 84
- Release Date:
- 2025-04-17
- Publication Date:
- 2025-04-17
- Publisher:
- Bittner, Klaus GmbH
- Languages:
- Original: German, Original: English
- ISBN10:
- 3926397667
- ISBN13:
- 9783926397669
- GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
- [email protected]
- Weight:
- 176 g
- Height:
- 13.6 cm
- Width:
- 20.6 cm
- Thickness:
- 1.2 cm
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