Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts

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Unsettling Colonial Modernity in Islamicate Contexts is written by Kara Adbolmaleki and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1443893749 (ISBN 10) and 9781443893749 (ISBN 13).

By focusing on colonial histories and legacies, this edited volume breaks new ground in studying modernity in Islamicate contexts. From a range of disciplinary perspectives, the authors probe ‘colonial modernity’ as a condition whose introduction into Islamicate contexts was facilitated historically by European encroachment into South Asia, the Middle East, and Northern Africa. They also analyze the various modes through which, in Europe itself, and in North America by extension, people from Islamicate contexts have been, and continue to be, otherized in the constitution and advancement of the project of modernity. The book further brings to light a multiplicity of social, political, cultural, and aesthetic modes of resistance aimed at subverting and unsettling colonial modernity in both Muslim-majority and diasporic contexts.