The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in by Dilyana Mincheva PAPERBACK

The Politics of Muslim Intellectual Discourse in the WestThe Emergence of a Western-Islamic Public Sphere\nAuthor(s): Dilyana Mincheva\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Liverpool University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Liverpool University Press\nISBN-13: 9781845198381, 978-1845198381\nSynopsis\nThis book is a case study in the literary, psychoanalytic, and theological encounters between diasporic Muslim intellectuals and secular western modernity. It centres on the simultaneous search for the possibility of both a reformation of Islamic fundamentalism and a transformation of the exclusionary limitations of western public institutions. With roots in original research in the fields of comparative religion and cultural studies, and drawing on sources in English, French, and Arabic, the author introduces and elaborates the concept of \""Western-Islamic public sphere\"". This concept defines what is at stake in the formative play of public representations where traditionalist foundations a.