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Record Nr.

UNINA9910821465703321

Autore

Majid Anouar <1960->

Titolo

A call for heresy : why dissent is vital to Islam and America / / Anouar Majid

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, Minn., : University of Minnesota Press

Bristol, : University Presses Marketing [distributor], c2007

ISBN

0-8166-5404-2

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 290 pages)

Disciplina

909.09767

Soggetti

Islamic civilization - 21st century

East and West

Islamic countries Relations United States

United States Civilization 21st century

United States Relations Islamic countries

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Saints in peril -- Death in Cancún -- Specters of annihilation -- Islam and its discontents -- Regime change -- America and its discontents -- Vital heresies.

Sommario/riassunto

A Call for Heresy discovers unexpected common ground in the deepening conflict between the Islamic world and the United States. Anouar Majid argues that the Islamic world and the United States are both in precipitous states of decline because, in each, religious, political, and economic orthodoxies have silenced the voices of their most creative thinkers. The solution, Majid argues, is a long-overdue revival of dissent.