Ali Shariati And The Future Of Social Theory

Dustin J. Byrd, Ph.D (2016), Michigan State University, is an Associate Professor of religion, philosophy and arabic at Olivet College. He has published numerous articles, book chapters, and manuscripts, including Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity, and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith (Haymarket Books, 2018).Seyed Javad Miri, Ph.D (2000), Institute of Humanities and Cultural Studies, is Professor of Sociology and History of Religions at that Institute in Tehran. He has published more than 50 books and 100 articles on various issues related to philosophy, religion, sociology and Social Theory. His latest book is entitled Reimagining Malcolm X: Street Thinker Versus Homo Academicus (University Press of America, 2016).

• AcknowledgementsAbout the Contributors1 IntroductionDustin J. Byrd and Seyed Javad Miri2 Shariati, Enlightenment and the Return of the Universal for Comparative Political ThinkingEric Goodfield3 Ideology by Any Other Name: Social Sciences and the Humanities as Western CatechismCarimo Mohomed4 Spokesmen of Intellectual Decolonization: Shariati in Dialogue with AlatasEsmaeil Zeiny5 Ali Shariati’s Critique of Durkheim’s Sociology of ReligionSeyed Javad Miri6 Ali Shariati and Critical Theory: From Black Affirmation to Red NegationDustin J. Byrd7 Ali Shariati and Ethical Humanism: Conceiving a Perspective of Liberative Social EthicsTeo Lee Ken8 The Liberties of a Transmitter: Frantz Fanon According to ShariatiGeorg Leube9 Understanding Ali Shariati’s Political ThoughtChandra Muzaffar10 The New Islamism: Remembrance and LiberationSophia Rose Arjana11 Ali Shariati on the Question of Palestine: Making a Sacred Symbol for Uprising against Injustice and DominationMahdi Ahouie12 Shariati on Islamic and Western Philosophy of EducationKhosrow Bagheri Noaparast13 Ali Shariati and Anti-Americanism in the Persian Gulf RegionFatemeh Shayan14 We and ShariatiM. Kürşad Atalar15 Musulman-e Marksisti: The Islamic Modernism of Ali Shariati inReligion vs. ReligionBader Mousa Al-SaifIndex