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(2013) Being a muslim in the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In Chapter 3, I argue that being a Muslim in a post-Western world requires a critical re-thinking of Islamic cosmopolitanism as Muslims lived it over many centuries, before there was this binary trap of "Islam and the West." An active recollection of what that cosmopolitanism entailed enables the possibilities of inhabiting the renewed worldliness of Muslim lived experiences. The form of the thinking about Islam and of being a Muslim in the world will not be abstracted from this condition unless Muslims are located in the particularity of the end of that condition of post-coloniality.
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Dabashi, H. (2013). The muslim cosmopole, in Being a muslim in the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 42-82.
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