Postcolonial revolutions and their afterlives: the theory and practice of the Lebanese New Left

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Notes

1 With reference to David Scott, Conscripts of Modernity, Durham: Duke University Press, 2004, p 1.

2 Example of epistemological critiques of modern Arab thought include 2 genres: studies that focus on their adoption of Euro-American concepts and modes of thought, for example Saba Mahmood, ‘Secularism, Hermeneutics and Empire: The Politics of Islamic Reformation’, Public Culture, 18(6), 2006, pp 323–347 and Joseph Massad, Desiring Arabs, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007. The second genre distinguishes between modernist (secular, liberal, Marxist, nationalist, etc.) and Islamist thinkers, often considering the latter authentic resisters to Western hegemony, for example, Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror, London: Verso, 2003 which Bardawil thinks with and against in chapter 2, Roxanne Euben, Enemy in the Mirror, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1999. See also ethnographies of the Islamic movement by Saba Mahmood, Politics of Piety, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2005, and Charles Hirschkind, Ethical Soundscapes, New York: Columbia University Press, 2006.