Abstract
Instead of the orientalist reformist paradigm as frame and episteme, Ḫaṭībī proposes a
theory of double critique, critical liminality that targets, in a bi-directional movement,
a Eurocentric or Orientalist discourse and an ethnocentric local discourse. Three
critical concepts, constitutive of the theory of double critique: decolonisation,
desacralisation and the orphan book are operative in Ḫaṭībī´s analysis of
Orientalism, identity, and the issue of origin. As a professional outsider, Ḫaṭībī
follows conceptually and methodologically the rules of the epistemological critique in an
enunciation of negotiation, not of negation; a site of hybridity.
theory of double critique, critical liminality that targets, in a bi-directional movement,
a Eurocentric or Orientalist discourse and an ethnocentric local discourse. Three
critical concepts, constitutive of the theory of double critique: decolonisation,
desacralisation and the orphan book are operative in Ḫaṭībī´s analysis of
Orientalism, identity, and the issue of origin. As a professional outsider, Ḫaṭībī
follows conceptually and methodologically the rules of the epistemological critique in an
enunciation of negotiation, not of negation; a site of hybridity.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 4 |
| Journal | Tidsskrift for Islamforskning |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| Pages (from-to) | 79-108 |
| Number of pages | 31 |
| ISSN | 1901-9580 |
| Publication status | Published - 29 Jun 2015 |