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03199aam a2200409 i 4500 001 F043C702D4E311E3810EC6B1DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20140506010127 008 130814s2014 enk b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2013033179 020 $a 144116524X (hardback) 020 $a 9781441165244 (hardback) 035 $a (OCoLC)855977627 040 $a DLC $e rda $b eng $c DLC $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YDXCP $d BDX $d YUS $d IUL $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PN605.I8 $b M88 2014 082 00 $a 809/.9338297 $2 23 084 $a REL037000 $2 bisacsh 100 1 $a Mutman, Mahmut. 245 14 $a The politics of writing Islam : $b voicing difference / $c Mahmut Mutman. 264 1 $a London ; $b Bloomsbury Academic, $c 2014. 300 $a viii, 263 pages ; $c 24 cm 490 1 $a Suspensions : contemporary Middle Eastern and Islamicate thought 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 241-254) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Part I. Ethnographies: Writing Culture: 1. Writing Culture: the Name of Man; 2. Native Speaker, Master Audience; 3. Exchange Past and Future -- Part II. Literatures: Crossing Culture: 4. Resonance of Light: Reading T.E. Lawrence; 5. Nomadism or Sovereignty: Location of Culture -- Part III Theologies: the Voice of the Other: 6. Orphan Religion; 7. Reciting: the Voice of the Other -- Conclusion. 520 $a "The Politics of Writing Islam provides a much-needed critique of existing forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in the West. Through critiquing ethnographic, literary, critical, psychoanalytic and theological discourses, the author reveals the problematic underlying cultural and theoretical presuppositions. Mutman demonstrates how their approach reflects the socially, politically and economically unequal relationship between the West and Islam. While offering a critical insight into concepts such as writing, power, post-colonialism, difference and otherness on a theoretical level, Mutman reveals a different perspective on Islam by emphasizing its living, everyday and embodied aspects in dynamic relation with the outside world - in contrast to the stereotyped authoritarian and backward religion characterized by an omnipotent God. Throughout, Mutman develops an approach to culture as an embodied, everyday, living and ever changing practice. He argues that Islam should be perceived precisely in this way, that is, as an open, heterogeneous, interpretive, multiple and worldly belief system within the Abrahamic tradition of ethical monotheism, and as one that is contested within as well as outside its 'own' culture"-- Provided by publisher. 520 $a "Critical and theoretical essays on forms of studying, writing and representing Islam in Western humanities and literature"-- Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Islam and literature. 650 0 $a Islam in literature. 650 0 $a Islam $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a East and West in literature. 650 0 $a Reader-response criticism. 650 0 $a Discourse analysis. 830 0 $a Suspensions (Series) 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111043920.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F043C702D4E311E3810EC6B1DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search