Islam, Technoscientific Identities, And The

This book examines how Muslim scientists and engineers, in the global context in which Islam has become an ingredient of identity discourses, are grappling with competing discourses to create new technoscientific outlooks.

Mazyar Lotfalian is a Post Doctoral Fellow at the Center for Religion and Media at New York University.

Preface and Acknowledgments

v

Introduction

1

(12)

Radical Critique and the Epochal Understanding of the West

13

(18)

A Techno-Cosmopolitan in the Context of the Secular State: The Discourse of a Muslim Engineer/Politician

31

(24)

The Scene of Technoscience in Malaysia: Institution Building in the Context of Islamic Resurgence

55

(20)

Islam and Science in Pakistan: Arguing Local Histories

75

(26)

Aporias of Technoscientific Imagination: Cultural Inscriptions

101

(22)

Conclusion: The Performative Landscape of Technoscientific Identities as Radical Critique

123

(14)

Bibliography

137

(12)

Index

149

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Islam, Technoscientific Identities, And The Culture Of Curiosity

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