商品簡介
Bringing together Islamic studies, a postcolonial literary perspective, and a focus on the interaction between aesthetics and politics, this book analyses Muhammad Iqbal's Islamism through his poetry. It argues that his notion of an Islamist selfhood was expressed in his verse through the interplay between poetic tradition and creative innovation - the political, economic and cultural decline of Islamic civilisation during the 19th and 20th centuries in fact became a site for the poetic creativity of this selfhood. It also considers how Iqbal articulated an Islamist geopolitical imagination in his work, and examines his exploration of the relationship between the modern West and a reconstructed Islam.
It will be a fascinating study for general readers and readers with interests in the intellectual and political history of modern South Asia, colonialism and postcolonialism. Islamic studies, and modern South Asian literature (especially Urdu and Persian poetry).
作者簡介
Javed Majeed is Professor of Postcolonial Studies, Queen Mary, University of London.
