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Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries
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What animates Islamic politics, and how do we study it without importing Western assumptions about what imagination is? Poetics and Politics of Islamic Imaginaries takes up this challenge through the concept of takhayyul , a classical Arabic framework for understanding how political visions are formed, sustained and contested. Drawing on scholarship across sociology, anthropology, political science, and cultural and legal history, the volume examines how narratives of masculine restoration, revolutionary spirit and cultural belonging drive and reinvent political formations across Turkey, Iran, Syria, Pakistan, India and China. Refusing positivist and Eurocentric templates, the contributors co-theorise from within their own contexts, attending to the specific temporalities through which Islamic movements claim the past, inhabit the present and project futures. The result is a volume whose theoretical force comes from the very geographies it studies: a contribution, not a conclusion, to the decolonial rethinking of political imagination and its entanglement with nationalism, masculine desire and the unfinished business of revolution.
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