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Achcar has produced a fine volume of essays that are an essential read for a new generation of leftists, particularly in the aftermath of the Arab uprisings. What would have been even more useful is if Achcar had turned his attention in the first chapter to the progressive reappropriation of Islam by Muslim youth in the era of the War on Terror. Looking for a liberation theology equivalent in Islam, young Muslims have turned to the Iranian writer Ali Shariati, the Egyptian philosopher Hassan Hanafi, but more universally to the experience of Black Muslims in the US and the work of Malcolm X. An analysis of this phenomenon, from a scholar like Achcar with a comprehensive mastery of the relevant subjects, and a comparison with Christian liberation theory, would have been extremely helpful.
Posted on: Fri, 21 Nov 2014 13:20:44 +0000

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