Dominance of decoloniality in modern islamist discourse

thinking Islam for liberation in North Africa

Abstract

The Islamist discourses of the late 19th and early 20th centuries has risen to prominence for presenting themselves as a renewed proposal for Islam in modernity and politics, extensively using anti-colonial rhetoric in their analytical processes. However, based on coloniality studies and the discursive construction of the epistemological-existential prison, the work considers the investigation into the scope of the decolonial domain to be of unique importance, that is, of a discursive and epistemological universe disconnected from the positions and modes of operation from Western instrumental thought, into the Islamic discourse for liberation. Aiming, with the help of Sibai and Said's decolonial stance, at reading Muhammad Abduh, Jamal Afghani, Rashid Rida and Hassan al-Banna, finding a critical look to think about the discursive influence of these thinkers in the crisis of current Islamic thought, thinking about the plurality of narratives Islamic ideas beyond the framework of “non-being”, as well as glimpsing the magnitude and mutations of the decolonial and Islamic apparatus in the projects for liberation in North Africa.