Hamid Dabashi: 14 books
by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In this unprecedented study, Hamid Dabashi provides a critical examination of the role that immigrant "comprador intellectuals" play in facilitating the global domination of American imperialism.
In his pioneering book about the relationship between race and colonialism, *Black Skin, White...
Post-Orientalism
Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and...
Post-Orientalism
Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Post-Orientalism is a sustained record of Hamid Dabashi's reflections over many years on the question of authority and power. Who gets to represent whom and by what authority? Dabashi's work picks up where Edward Said's Orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and...
Iran Without Borders
Towards a Critique of the Postcolonial Nation
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
A history of the cosmopolitan forces that made contemporary Iran
“No ruling regime,” writes Hamid Dabashi, “could ever have a total claim over the idea of Iran as a nation, a people.” For decades, the narrative about Iran has been dominated by a false binary, in which the traditional...
The Arab Spring
The End of Postcolonialism
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2012
This pioneering explanation of the Arab Spring will define a new era of thinking about the Middle East. In this landmark book, Hamid Dabashi argues that the revolutionary uprisings that have engulfed multiple countries and political climes from Morocco to Iran and from Syria to Yemen, were driven...
Iran
The Rebirth of a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2016
In this unprecedented book, Hamid Dabashi provides a provocative account of Iran in its current resurrection as a mighty regional power. Through a careful study of contemporary Iranian history in its political, literary, and artistic dimensions, Dabashi decouples the idea of Iran from its colonial...
The Shahnameh
The Persian Epic as World Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2019
The Shahnameh, an epic poem recounting the foundation of Iran across mythical, heroic, and historical ages, is the beating heart of Persian literature and culture. Composed by Abu al-Qasem Ferdowsi over a thirty-year period and completed in the year 1010, the epic has entertained generations of readers...
Islamic Liberation Theology
Resisting the Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2008
This book is a radical piece of counter-intuitive rethinking of the clash of civilizations theory and global politics.
In this richly detailed criticism of contemporary politics, Hamid Dabashi argues that after 9/11 we have not seen a new phase in a long running confrontation between Islam...
by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2015
'In Can Non-Europeans Think? Dabashi takes his subtle but vigorous polemic to another level.'
Pankaj Mishra
What happens to thinkers who operate outside the European philosophical pedigree? In this powerfully honed polemic, Hamid Dabashi argues that they are invariably marginalised, patronised...
Theology of Discontent
The Ideological Foundation of the Islamic Revolution in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2017
Scores of books and articles have been published, addressing one or another aspect of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. Missing from this body of scholarship, however, has been a comprehensive analysis of the intellectual and ideological cornerstones of one of the most dramatic revolutions in our time....
Authority in Islam
From the Rise of Mohammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
From the origins of Muhammad's prophetic movement through the development of Islam's principal branches to the establishment of the Umayyad dynasty, the concept of authority has been central to Islamic civilization. By examining the nature, organization, and transformation of authority over time,...
Persophilia
Persian Culture on the Global Scene
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2015
From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.
Iran, the Green Movement and the USA
The Fox and the Paradox
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2013
Iran, the Green Movement and the USA presents the paradox that the USA faces in dealing with Iran over its nuclear armament: negotiate, and legitimize Ahmadinejad’s otherwise troubled presidency; resort to sanctions or military strikes, and altogether destroy the budding civil rights campaign of...
by Hamid Dabashi
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
Humanism has mostly considered the question “What does it mean to be human?” from a Western perspective. Dabashi asks it anew from a non-European perspective, in a groundbreaking study of 1,400 years of Persian literary humanism. He presents the unfolding of this vast tradition as the creative and subversive subconscious of Islamic civilization.