Freedom and Orthodoxy: Islam and Difference in the Post-Andalusian Age

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Stanford University Press, 2004 - 270 páginas
This book argues that the clash of civilizations that is supposed to be a feature of the post-Cold War environment is not necessarily caused by the dogma of world religions or cultural incompatibilities but by the inflexible and hegemonic universalisms that have characterized world history since 1492 a cultural outlook that Majid terms post-Andalusianism. The all-encompassing worldviews of Euro-American ideologies have resulted in the retreat of Islam and other non-European traditions into dangerous orthodoxies and a growing climate of suspicion, fear, and terror.

Freedom and Orthodoxy offers an alternative to perennial discord, suggesting that the world needs a philosophy of the provincial, one that reattaches individuals and societies to their heritages and memories but connects them to the rest of the world in solid, non-alienating, meaningful ways. For this to happen, Majid contends, globalization must be reimagined as a network of human solidarities and rigorous conversations across the world s multiple cultures, not as a mechanical process of economic expansionism.

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Disorienting Theories
1
Other Worlds New Muslims
21
Empire of Liberty
53
Liberties Undone
105
Perils of Empire
151
Provincialisms Now
194
Notes
225
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Anouar Majid is Professor and Chair in the Department of English at the University of New England in Maine.

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