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An online publication of the Ali Vural Ak Center for Global Islamic Studies at George Mason University

Marxism

[Book Review] Revolution and Disenchantment: Arab Marxism and the Binds of Emancipation (Duke University Press, 2020) by Fadi Bardawil | Reviewed by Sawyer Martin French

By Sawyer Martin French  //  March 2, 2021September 7, 2021

Revolution and Disenchantment offers a powerful example of critical ethnographic engagement with radical intellectual and militant movements within in a broader intellectual world colored by a postcolonial divide. The book’s main cast is a generation…

A Place for Marxism in Traditionalist Fiqh: Engaging the Indonesian Thinker Muhammad Al-Fayyadl

By Sawyer Martin French  //  May 19, 2020May 19, 2020

In Indonesia, like elsewhere, Islam and Marxism have an historical relationship largely characterized by opposition. Notably, there was an historical moment during the late colonial and early independence eras when a tradition of Islamic communism…

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