Islam and Anarchism

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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.

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A nuanced and highly original anarchistic interpretation of Islam, and Islamic interpretation of anarchism

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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
   Isl m 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-Isl m's Playground and Ethical-Political Consciousness
   On Decolonization and Reindigenization, and the Crises of Fleeting Tahrir Moments
   Thus Spoke God: The Method of Anarchic Ijtih d
   Deleuze and Guattari's Oedipal Triad: The Nation-State (Daddy) - Capitalism (Mommy) - and Me/Us
3. Anarcha-Isl m: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Isl m
   Anarcha-Isl m's Osteological Left-Side
   Arise: An Anti- and Non-Authoritarian Isl m
   Modern Uses of Wat aniyyah, Qawmiyyah, and Dawla, and Decolonized Vestiges of the Umma and m mah in Arab and Muslim Lexicons
   Muslim and Non-Muslim Glossaries of Indigeneity Towards a Resurgent Umma: Anti-Blackness and Anti-Indigenous Politics
4. Anarcha-Isl m: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Isl m
   Anarcha-Isl m's Osteological Right-Side
   Awaken: An Anti- and Non-Capitalist Isl m: 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, Jih d, and Qit l in Isl m: 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