Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam - Hardcover

Devji, Faisal

 
9780300276633: Waning Crescent: The Rise and Fall of Global Islam
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 030027663X ISBN 13: 9780300276633
Verlag: Yale University Press, 2025

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A compelling examination of the rise of Islam as a global historical actor
 
Until the nineteenth century, Islam was variously understood as a set of beliefs and practices. But after Muslims began to see their faith as an historical actor on the world stage, they needed to narrate Islam’s birth anew as well as to imagine its possible death. Faisal Devji argues that this change, sparked by the crisis of Muslim sovereignty in the age of European empire, provided a way of thinking about agency in a global context: an Islam liberated from the authority of kings and clerics had the potential to represent the human race itself as a newly empirical reality.
 
Ordinary Muslims, now recognized as the privileged representatives of Islam, were freed from traditional forms of Islamic authority. However, their conception of Islam as an impersonal actor in history meant that it could not be defined in either religious or political terms. Its existence as a civilizational and later ideological subject also deprived figures like God and the Prophet of their theological subjectivities while robbing the Muslim community of its political agency. Devji illuminates this history and explores its ramifications for the contemporary Muslim world.

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Verlag
Yale University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2025
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
030027663X
ISBN 13 
9780300276633
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
280
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