Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work, which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs-that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist and that anarchism in necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources, and drawing on radical Indigenous, Black, Islamic-Anarchistic and social movement discourses, Abdou proposes "Anarcha-Islam".
Constructing a decolonial, non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism, Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist, sexist, racist, ageist, queerophobic, and ableist inequalities in both postcolonial and neocolonial societies like Egypt and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.
Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar. He is currently a Visiting Scholar and Postdoctoral Fellow in Global Racial Justice at the Einaudi Center at Cornell University.
7 ноя 2022
