Literatures and Cultures of the Islamic World

The LITERATURES AND CULTURES OF THE ISLAMIC WORLD series will put forward a critical body of first rate scholarship on the literary and cultural production of the Islamic world from the vantage point of contemporary theoretical and hermeneutic perspectives, effectively bringing the study of Islamic literatures and cultures to the wider attention of scholars and students of world literatures and cultures without the prejudices and drawbacks of outmoded perspectives.   

HAMID DABASHI is Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He has chaired the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures (2000-2005) and been a founding member of the Institute for Comparative Literature and Society. His most recent books include Islamic Liberation Theology: Resisting the Empire (Routledge, 2008), Makhmalbaf at Large: The Making of a Rebel Filmmaker (I.B.Tauris, 2008), Iran: A People Interrupted (New Press, 2007), and an edited volume, Dreams of a Nation: On Palestinian Cinema (Verso, 2006).