Thread by @mullasadra

Sometimes when I focus on #IslamicIntellectualHistory I miss what is obviously there so my recent forays into #ContemporaryArabThought illuminate much and in that vein only just encountered this recent classic cup.columbia.edu/book/contempor… 1/

Elizabeth Suzanne Kassab teaches @doha_institute dohainstitute.edu.qa/EN/Academics/S… and elucidates pre-67 and post-67 better than most 2/

Here is a useful review networks.h-net.org/node/7801/revi… by Yoav Di-Capua @UTAustin 3/

Di-Capua has also written a lively account of existentialism press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book… 4/

Kassab has also written a sequel cup.columbia.edu/book/enlighten… 5/

On which see this jadaliyya.com/Details/40665 6/

I wonder if there are studies in English on the intellectual history of the left? Looking at the likes of Husain Muruwwe and Mahdi ‘Amil both assassinated in 1987 jadaliyya.com/Details/34028 #ContemporaryArabThought 7/

Beirut bookshops like #Bisan the works of these intellectuals continues to be available - I feel the pull of working more on what directly makes our intellectual world today - connecting the #Anglophone and #Francophone with #Arabic #Persian and #Urdu intellectuals 8/

Connected #ContemporaryIslamicateThought anyone? 9/

The account for example of #urdu intellectuals is sorely missing - and one cannot just blame #MarxistHistory / where are the studies on the networks of figures like Shibli Nu’mani and ‘Abd alMajid Daryabadi? #UrduThought 1/

Or poets like Josh Malihabadi, Nasir Kazmi, Jaun Aelia, Habib Jalib google.co.uk/amp/s/theprint… #UrduThought 2/

Perhaps Sibte Hasan, the leading Marxist writer in Pakistan or Hanif Nadvi a rather intriguing salafi who did much to bring the #IslamicPhilosophicalTraditions to an #Urdu readership 3/

Or for that matter Kishwer Naheed, Fahmida Riaz, Asma Jahangir, Ishrat Afreen and many others medium.com/blacklisted-me… #UrduThought 4/

The obsession with #Iqbal and the politics of #Pakistan has had a rather distorting effect 5/

Incidentally this is a really good review of the book themaydan.com/2018/10/book-r…