Islam and Anarchism: Relationships and Resonances

'One of the fiercest books I've ever read' - Jasbir K. Puar Discourse around Muslims and Islam all too often lapses into a false dichotomy of Orientalist and fundamentalist tropes. A popular reimagining of Islam is urgently needed. Yet it is a perhaps unexpected political philosophical tradition that has the most to offer in this pursuit: anarchism. Islam and Anarchism is a highly original and interdisciplinary work which simultaneously disrupts two commonly held beliefs - that Islam is necessarily authoritarian and capitalist; and that anarchism is necessarily anti-religious and anti-spiritual. Deeply rooted in key Islamic concepts and textual sources and drawing on radical Indigenous Islamic anarchistic and social movement discourses Abdou proposes 'Anarcha-Islam'. Constructing a decolonial non-authoritarian and non-capitalist Islamic anarchism Islam and Anarchism philosophically and theologically challenges the classist sexist racist ageist queerphobic and ableist inequalities in both post- and neo-colonial societies like Egypt and settler-colonial societies such as Canada and the USA.