The last Muslim intellectual : the life and legacy of Jalal Al-e Ahmad.
- 1 online resource.
- Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world .
Includes bibliographies and index.
In this social and intellectual biography, Hamid Dabashi contends that Jalal Al-e Ahmad was the last Muslim intellectual to have articulated a vision of Muslim worldly cosmopolitanism. This unprecedented engagement with Al-e Ahmad's life and legacy is a prelude to what Dabashi calls a 'post-Islamist Liberation Theology'.