'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 a perhaps 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.
Table of Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
A Note on Transliteration and Translation
1. Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present
The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities
A Match to a Powder Keg
Islām and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island’s Newest Social Movements
Positionality: Who Is Speaking?
A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed
2. Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Islām’s Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness
On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments
Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtihād
Deleuze and Guattari’s Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) – Capitalism (Mommy) – and Me/Us
3. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām
Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Left-Side
Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām
Modern Uses of Waṭaniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and Īmāmah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons
Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics
4. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām
Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Right-Side
Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām: Micro- and Macro-Economics
As Patients We Come to Each Other’s Aid
5. Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance
The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence
Violence, Jihād, and Qitāl in Islām: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire
From the Deception of “Nonviolence” to Red, Black, and Brown Power
Liberatory Victory
6. Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir
Notes
Index
