Islam and Anarchism

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By Mohamed Abdou

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Islam and Anarchism by Mohamed Abdou explores the intriguing intersection between Islamic principles and anarchist philosophy. The book delves into how both systems challenge authority and advocate for social justice, offering a fresh perspective on their potential harmonies. Abdou approaches the subject with a focus on ethical living and liberative practices within a spiritual and philosophical framework.
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This book may appeal to you if you're intrigued by the intersection of political philosophy and religious thought, particularly in exploring how anarchism interacts with Islamic principles. It provides a thought-provoking analysis, challenging conventional views while offering fresh perspectives on governance, spirituality, and social justice.

Islam and Anarchism

A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism

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'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. Puar

Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is perhaps an unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism.

Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs: that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist, and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes 'Anarcha-Islam'.

Constructing a decolonial, non-authoritarian, and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist, sexist, racist, ageist, queerphobic, and ableist inequalities in both post- and neo-colonial societies like Egypt, and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.

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ISBN: 9780745341927

Publisher: Pluto Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 July 2022

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Pluto Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

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Width: 135.0mm

Height: 215.0mm

Weight: 0g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Mohamed Abdou is a self-identifying Muslim anarchist activist-scholar and diasporic settler of colour, living on unseeded Anishinaabe and Haudenosaunee territory. His twenty years of activist research experience centres on Palestinian, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on his experiences with the Mohawks of Tyendinaga, the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, and participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011. He is a former Adjunct professor of Arab and Islamic social movements at Queen's University who completed his transnational and interdisciplinary ethnographic and historical-archival PhD on Islam & Queer-Muslims: Identity, Gender, Sexuality, and Politics in the Contemporary.