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Islam, Marxism, and Social Change
Emile Tumaâs Social Movements in Islam
Series: - Historical Materialism Book Series, Volume: 403
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What happens when a Palestinian communist intellectual refuses to abandon Islamic heritage to his ideological opponents? Emile Tuma (1919â1985) â historian, activist, and editor of Al-Ittihad â spent decades arguing that Islam's history of rebellion, from the Zanj slave revolt to the Qarmatian movement, carries a genuinely revolutionary potential.
Part I introduces you to Tuma's remarkable life and offers the first critical analysis of his Marxist engagement with Islamic social history. Part II delivers the first-ever English translation of his landmark Social Movements in Islam (1979) â making a foundational text of Arab-Marxist thought accessible to a global audience for the first time.
Part I introduces you to Tuma's remarkable life and offers the first critical analysis of his Marxist engagement with Islamic social history. Part II delivers the first-ever English translation of his landmark Social Movements in Islam (1979) â making a foundational text of Arab-Marxist thought accessible to a global audience for the first time.
Dr. Abed Kanaaneh is a senior lecturer in the department of Middle Eastern and African History at Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Shiʿite political thought, radical Islamic movements, revolutionary thought in the Middle East.
Ruba Simaan is a lead translator at Glocal Translations and Language Solutions in Haifa. She holds a PhD in French from the Hebrew University. Her doctoral dissertation examined representations of female and male bodies in Francophone North African litera
Ruba Simaan is a lead translator at Glocal Translations and Language Solutions in Haifa. She holds a PhD in French from the Hebrew University. Her doctoral dissertation examined representations of female and male bodies in Francophone North African litera
This book is for scholars and postgraduate students in Islamic history, Middle Eastern studies, Palestinian intellectual history, and postcolonial theory; specialists in Arab Marxism and left political thought; academic libraries collecting in these fields.