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| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780520376922 |
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(hbk) |
| 082 ## - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
297.272 |
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| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Dabashi, Hamid |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The end of two illusions : Islam after the West |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) |
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| Name of publisher, distributor, etc |
University of California Press, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc |
2022 |
| Place of publication, distribution, etc |
California : |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
xiii, 333 p. ; |
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ill., |
| Dimensions |
25 cm. |
| 365 ## - TRADE PRICE |
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29.95 |
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$ |
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89.00 |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc |
Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, The End of Two Illusions is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking work that dismantles the most dangerous delusions manufactured between two vastly fetishized abstractions: "Islam" and "the West." Hamid Dabashi shows how the civilizational divides imagined between these two cosmic binaries have defined their entanglement -- in ways that have nothing to do with the lived experiences of either Muslims or the diverse and changing communities scarcely held together by the myth of "the West." Through detailed historical and contemporary analysis, Dabashi demonstrates how the two illusions became the prototype of a civilizational hostility, with weaponized Islamophobia on one side and militant Islamism on the other. The most iconoclastic work of critical thought and scholarship to emerge in recent memory, this book clears the way toward a far more liberating and imaginative geography of the world we share. Dismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories. Extending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, Hamid Dabashi's The End of Two Illusions is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking work that dismantles the most dangerous delusions manufactured between two vastly fetishized abstractions: "Islam" and "the West." With this book, Dabashi shows how the civilizational divides imagined between these two cosmic binaries have defined their entanglement--in ways that have nothing to do with the lived experiences of either Muslims or the diverse and changing communities scarcely held together by the myth of "the West." Through detailed historical and contemporary analysis, The End of Two Illusions untangles the motivations that produced this global fiction. Dabashi demonstrates how "the West" was an ideological commodity and civilizational mantra invented during the European Enlightenment, serving as an epicenter for the rise of globalized capitalist modernity. In turn, Orientalist ideologues went around the world manufacturing equally illusory abstractions in the form of inferior civilizations in India, China, Africa, Latin America, and the Islamic world. The result was the projection of "Islam and the West" as the prototype of a civilizational hostility that has given false explanations and flawed prognoses of our contemporary history, with weaponized Islamophobia on one side and militant Islamism on the other as its most palpable manifestations. Dabashi argues it is long past time to dismantle this dangerous liaison, expose and overcome its perilous delusions, and reimagine the world beyond its shimmering mirage. |
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Religion and Spirituality |
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History |
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Western civilization colonialism |
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Islamic Studies |
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Scical Science |
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Books |