On the Urgency of Radical Palestinian Epistemology

This article investigates radical Palestinian epistemology through a tradition of literary knowledge production as a dynamic and generative field. Drawing on Edward Said’s assertion that dominant narrative frameworks routinely render Palestinian existence illegible, the author argues that the struggle is not merely over narration or the right to narrate, but more fundamentally over the production and recognition of knowledge itself. Rather than simply reframing facts within new narratives, she contends that it is necessary to reconstruct the conditions of intelligibility, interrogating not only what is known, but also what is rendered knowable. This study approaches Palestinian Indigeneity (al-aslaniya), rootedness (al-judhuriya), and movement (al-haraka) as both political categories and epistemological premises, opening a space to examine how these concepts operate across diverse forms of cultural production

Assertion · Cognitive reframing · Knowledge production · Narrative · Politics · Space (punctuation) · Belt and Road Initiative · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies