商品簡介
The Symbolic Scenarios of Islamism initiates a dialogue between the discourse of three of the most discussed figures in the history of the Sunni Islamic movement - Hasan al-Banna, Sayyid Qutb and Osama bin Laden - and contemporary debates across religion and political theory, providing a crucial foundation upon which to situate current developments in world politics. Redressing the inefficiency of the terms in which the debate on Islam and Islamism is generally conducted, the book examines the role played by tradition, modernity, and transmodernity as major a€?symbolic scenariosa€? of Islamist discourses, highlighting the internal complexity and dynamism of Islamism. By uncovering forms of knowledge that have hitherto gone unnoticed or have been marginalised by traditional and dominant approaches to politics, accounting for central political ideas in non-Western sources and in the Global South, the book provides a unique contribution towards rethinking the nature of citizenship, antagonism, space, and frontiers required today. While offering valuable reading for scholars of Islamic studies, religious studies and politics, it provides a critical perspective for academics with an interest in discourse theory, post-colonial theory, political philosophy, and comparative political thought.
作者簡介
Andrea Mura is a Lecturer at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter, and a visiting academic at the Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance at The Open University, where he previously contributed to the Oecumene: Citizenship after Orientalism project. He has published widely in the fields of political philosophy, psychoanalysis, and comparative political thought, inquiring into the influence that political-theological questions have traditionally exerted upon ideas of power, justice, and economy in different traditions.
