Islam and Anarchism

Mohamed Abdou is a North African-Egyptian Muslim anarchist activist-scholar. He is currently a Visiting Scholar at Cornell University and an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the American University of Cairo. His twenty years of activist research and experience centers on Palestinian, Indigenous, Black, and people of colour liberation, and draws on the Indigenous Zapatista movement in Chiapas, Mexico, as well as his participation in the Egyptian uprisings of 2011.

'This is one of the fiercest books I've ever read. It is a call to action. It is conceptually rich and gives us new methodological tools for thinking theory and politics together. It is unrelenting in its critique of liberal assimilationist tendencies in diasporic and BIPOC knowledge production and movement organizing. Abdou is a truth-teller of the highest order. Drawing together disparate geographies and thought into a dazzling web of interconnectedness and dialogue, Islam and Anarchism proffers a kaleidoscopic vision of what could be otherwise'

• Preface Acknowledgments A Note on Transliteration and Translation 1. Introduction: Panegyric Desert of the Present The Destructive Legacy of (Neo)Liberalism and Colonial Modernity in the Production of Neo-Orientalist and Neo-Fundamentalist Muslim Subjectivities A Match to a Powder Keg Islām and Anarchism Are Dead: Muslim Anarchists in Turtle Island’s Newest Social Movements Positionality: Who Is Speaking? A Sum Exceeding the Whole, Everything Divided: The Argument Condensed 2. Authoritarianism, Capitalism, and Capitalist Nation-States: Anarcha-Islām’s Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtihād Deleuze and Guattari’s Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) – Capitalism (Mommy) – and Me/Us 3. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Left-Side Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Islām Modern Uses of Waṭaniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and Īmāmah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics 4. Anarcha-Islām: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām Anarcha-Islām’s Osteological Right-Side Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Islām: Micro- and Macro-Economics As Patients We Come to Each Other’s Aid 5. Uprisings: On (Im)Possibilities and Militant Resistance The Delusional Myth of Nonviolence Violence, Jihād, and Qitāl in Islām: A Single Blunder Can Fuel a Great Fire From the Deception of “Nonviolence” to Red, Black, and Brown Power Liberatory Victory 6. Conclusion: There Are Only Middles, No Beginnings and No Ends. Between BLM, NoDaPL-INM, and Tahrir Notes Index