Review:
"An important book. Coming from a different intellectual perspective, Majid qualifies and expands the ordinary terms of postcolonial discourse and he does so from a genuinely international intellectual position. There are few academics writing today who draw on the cultural and literary range that Majid does here."--Leila N. Ahmed, author of Women and Gender in Islam
"This excellent book is full of passionate, polemical scholarship. Majid covers a wide-ranging territory--the persistence of 'orientalist' discourse, 'Arab' nationalism, 'Islamic fundamentalism, ' postcolonial criticism, a critique of capitalism, contemporary Muslim feminist scholarship, and (black) African novels from Islamic cultural backgrounds. This timely book will make a significant contribution to current debates about progressive social, political, and cultural directions."-- Abdul JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley
From the Back Cover:
"This excellent book is full of passionate, polemical scholarship. Majid covers a wide-ranging territory--the persistence of 'orientalist' discourse, 'Arab' nationalism, 'Islamic fundamentalism, ' postcolonial criticism, a critique of capitalism, contemporary Muslim feminist scholarship, and (black) African novels from Islamic cultural backgrounds. This timely book will make a significant contribution to current debates about progressive social, political, and cultural directions."-- Abdul JanMohamed, University of California, Berkeley
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