At Freedom's Limit: Islam and the Postcolonial Predicament

Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgments; The Argument; 1. The Maintenance of Innocence; 2. The Echo Chamber of Freedom: The Muslim Woman and the Pretext of Agency; 3. Religion and the Novel: A Case Study; 4. How Injury Travels; 5. Cold War Baroque: Saints and Icons; 6. Theologies of Love; Notes.;The subject of this book is a new ""Islam."" This Islam began to take shape in 1988 around the Rushdie affair, the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, and the first Gulf War of 1991. It was consolidated in the period following September 11, 2001. It is a name, a discursive site, a signifier at once flexible and constrained--indeed, it is a geopolitical agon, in and around which some of the most pressing aporias of modernity, enlightenment, liberalism, and reformation are worked out. At this discursive site are many metonyms for Islam: the veiled or ""pious"" Muslim woman, the militant, the mi.