Being a Muslim in the World [Hardcover]

What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, worldIntroduction.Muslims in the World 1.But there is neither East nor West 2.Breaking the Binary 3.The Muslim Cosmopole 4.Being a Muslim 5.Din, Dowlat, and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness 6.'ReligionQuote, Unquote' Conclusion.Towards a Hermeneutics of AlterityHamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in New York.