{"title":"Hamid Dabashi","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHamid Dabashi\u003c\/strong\u003e offers profound insights into contemporary politics and culture, exploring the intricate relationships between power, identity, and ideology. His works engage with the legacies of influential thinkers like Edward Said, inviting readers to reconsider established narratives through a critical and nuanced lens.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCombining rigorous scholarship with accessible language, Dabashi’s books challenge readers to think deeply about global affairs and societal structures. Ideal for those interested in \u003cem\u003ePolitics \u0026amp; Current Affairs\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eEducation \u0026amp; Reference\u003c\/em\u003e, this collection provokes thoughtful reflection on the forces shaping our world.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"on-edward-said-by-hamid-dabashi-9781642592733","title":"On Edward Said","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eEdward Said (1935-2003) was a towering figure in post-colonial studies and the struggle for justice in his native Palestine, best known for his critique of orientalism in Western portrayals of the Middle East. As a public intellectual, activist, and scholar, Said forever changed how we read the world around us and left an indelible mark on subsequent generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHamid Dabashi, himself a leading thinker and critical public voice, offers a unique collection of reminiscences, travelogues, and essays that document his own close and long-standing scholarly, personal, and political relationship with Said. In the process, they place the enduring significance of Edward Said's legacy in an unfolding context and locate his work within the moral imagination and environment of the time.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOn Edward Said\u003c\/em\u003e captures this rich and nuanced relationship, offering readers a deeper understanding of both Dabashi's and Said's profound contributions to cultural criticism and political discourse.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46849601339628,"sku":"9781642592733","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/c5661b52b6df4f08912456c2244a42e5.jpg?v=1759082755"},{"product_id":"after-savagery-by-hamid-dabashi-9798888904503","title":"After Savagery","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWritten during a genocide,\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003eAfter Savagery\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the ethical bankruptcy of 'Western philosophy' and how it undergirds the erasure of the colonised.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe death toll in Gaza continues to rise—a cold, lifeless number representing entire communities crushed under the weight of settler colonialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhat remains of the theories we use to understand our world? With lyrical and lucid fury, Hamid Dabashi exposes the racist roots of Western philosophy, demanding that readers overcome its pernicious phantom of relevance. Rather than perceiving 'the West' as giving carte blanche to Israel, Dabashi insists that Israel must be understood as its quintessence.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf Israel is the West and the West is Israel, then Palestine is the world and the world is Palestine. Holding to glimmers from revolutionary works of literature and film, Dabashi argues, in grief and love, that the wretched of the earth need poetry after barbarism—and that Palestine is the site of a liberated imagination.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47455512723692,"sku":"9798888904503","price":39.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/71SD3S-C55L._SL1500.jpg?v=1774776888"},{"product_id":"the-end-of-two-illusions-by-hamid-dabashi-9780520376922","title":"The End of Two Illusions","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDismantling the myths that divide Islam and the West, this cutting-edge work of critical thinking proposes new ways to reread Islamic and world histories.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExtending from the front-page news coverage of our daily lives back into the deepest and most revelatory histories of the last two hundred years and earlier, Hamid Dabashi's \u003cem\u003eThe End of Two Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e is a daring, provocative, and groundbreaking work that dismantles the most dangerous delusions manufactured between two vastly fetishized abstractions: \"Islam\" and \"the West.\" With this book, Dabashi shows how the civilizational divides imagined between these two cosmic binaries have defined their entanglement—in ways that have nothing to do with the lived experiences of either Muslims or the diverse and changing communities scarcely held together by the myth of \"the West.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough detailed historical and contemporary analysis, \u003cem\u003eThe End of Two Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e untangles the motivations that produced this global fiction. Dabashi demonstrates how \"the West\" was an ideological commodity and civilizational mantra invented during the European Enlightenment, serving as an epicenter for the rise of globalized capitalist modernity. In turn, Orientalist ideologues went around the world manufacturing equally illusory abstractions in the form of inferior civilizations in India, China, Africa, Latin America, and the Islamic world.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe result was the projection of \"Islam and the West\" as the prototype of a civilizational hostility that has given false explanations and flawed prognoses of our contemporary history, with weaponized Islamophobia on one side and militant Islamism on the other as its most palpable manifestations. Dabashi argues it is long past time to dismantle this dangerous liaison, expose and overcome its perilous delusions, and reimagine the world beyond its shimmering mirage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe End of Two Illusions\u003c\/em\u003e is the most iconoclastic work of critical thought and scholarship to emerge in recent memory, clearing the way toward a far more liberating imaginative geography of the world we share.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47471767159020,"sku":"9780520376922","price":56.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780520376922-the-end-of-two-illusions.jpg?v=1775252974"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/hamid-dabashi.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}