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SUMMARY:Hamid Dabashi in conversation about his new book:The Last Muslim I
 ntellectual: The Life and Legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad - Hamid Dabashi ((Hag
 op Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Co
 lumbia University in New York))
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DESCRIPTION:Bio:\n\nHamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iran
 ian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He received
  a dual PhD in Sociology of Culture and Islamic Studies from the Universit
 y of Pennsylvania in 1984\, followed by a postdoctoral fellowship at Harva
 rd University. He wrote his dissertation on Max Weber's theory of charisma
 tic authority with Philip Rieff (1922-2006)\, the most distinguished Freud
 ian cultural critic of his time. Professor Dabashi has taught and delivere
 d lectures in many North American\, European\, Arab\, and Iranian universi
 ties. Professor Dabashi has written twenty-five books\, edited four\, and 
 contributed chapters to many more. He is also the author of over 100 essay
 s\, articles and book reviews on subjects ranging from Iranian Studies\, m
 edieval and modern Islam\, and comparative literature to world cinema and 
 the philosophy of art (trans-aesthetics). His books and articles have been
  translated into numerous languages\, including Japanese\, German\, French
 \, Spanish\, Danish\, Russian\, Hebrew\, Italian\, Arabic\, Korean\, Persi
 an\, Portuguese\, Polish\, Turkish\, Urdu and Catalan. His books include A
 uthority in Islam [1989]\; Theology of Discontent [1993]\; Truth and Narra
 tive [1999]\; Close Up: Iranian Cinema\, Past\, Present\, Future [2001]\; 
 Staging a Revolution: The Art of Persuasion in the Islamic Republic of Ira
 n [2000]\; Masters and Masterpieces of Iranian Cinema [2007]\; Iran: A Peo
 ple Interrupted [2007]\; and an edited volume\, Dreams of a Nation: On Pal
 estinian Cinema[2006]. His most recent work includes Shi’ism: A Religion
  of Protest (2011)\, The Arab Spring: The End of Postcolonialism (2012)\, 
 Corpus Anarchicum: Political Protest\, Suicidal Violence\, and the Making 
 of the Posthuman Body (2012)\, The World of Persian Literary Humanism (201
 2) and Being A Muslim in the World (2013).\n\nAbstract:\n\nThe first compr
 ehensive social and intellectual biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad\, this book
  explores the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad (1923-69)\, arguably the
  most prominent Iranian public intellectual of his time and contends that 
 he was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim
  worldly cosmopolitanism\, before the militant Islamism of the last half a
  century degenerated into sectarian politics and intellectual alienation f
 rom the world at large. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad’s 
 life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a post-Islamist Liberat
 ion Theology. The Last Muslim Intellectual is about expanding the wide spe
 ctrum of anticolonial thinking beyond its established canonicity and addin
 g a critical Muslim thinker to it is an urgent task\, if the future of Mus
 lim critical thinking is to be considered in liberated terms beyond the de
 ad-end of its current sectarian predicament. A full social and intellectua
 l biography of Jalal Al-e Ahmad\, a seminal Muslim public intellectual of 
 the mid-20th century\, this book places Al-e Ahmad’s writing and activit
 ies alongside other influential anticolonial thinkers of his time\, includ
 ing Frantz Fanon\, Aimé Césaire and Edward Said. Chapters cover Jalal Al
 -e Ahmad’s intellectual and political life\; his relationship with his w
 ife\, the novelist Simin Daneshvar\; his essays\; his fiction\; his travel
  writing\; his translations\; and his legacy. \nSpeakers:\nHamid Dabashi (
 (Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature a
 t Columbia University in New York))
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