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What does it mean to be a Muslim - in this world, in this deeply transformative time? Hamid Dabashi suggests that the transition to a changed, post-Western world requires the crafting of a new language of critical conversation with Islam and its cosmopolitan heritage - a language that is tuned to the emerging, not the disappearing, world
Hamid Dabashi asks what it means to be a Muslim in today's world when the "Islam and the West" binary is collapsing
Introduction.Muslims in the World 1.But there is neither East nor West 2.Breaking the Binary 3.The Muslim Cosmopole 4.Being a Muslim 5.Din, Dowlat, and Donya: Rethinking Worldliness 6.'Religion¿Quote, Unquote' Conclusion.Towards a Hermeneutics of Alterity