Theorizing From the Periphery

The Intellectual Project of Mahdi ʿamil

Bibliographic Data

ID8970434
AuthorsSamer Frangie (corresponding author)
Year2012
Volume44
Issue3
Pages465-482
Publication date2012-07-26
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueInternational Journal Middle East Studies (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0020-7438 • E-ISSN: 1471-6380
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0020743812000426
OpenAlexW2131333656
LanguageEN
Citations received16
References cited18

The paper will draw the contours of the intellectual project of Mahdi ʿAmil (1936–87), a prominent Lebanese Marxist. It will start by relocating ʿAmil's work in the general problématique of the adaptation and adoption of theories in the periphery, looking at the process of translation he deploys in his construction of an “Arab Marxism.” After presenting his project, the paper will focus on its diachronic dimension, by presenting two developments that threatened ʿAmil's overarching project, namely, the Lebanese civil war in the 1970s and the rise of a new register of critique in the 1980s, epitomized by the work of Edward Said. The paper will conclude with a discussion of the contemporary relevance of ʿAmil's work to the historiography of modern Arab political thought

Historiography · Marxist philosophy · Political science · Politics · Relevance (law · Sociology · Work (physics · Engineering · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Middle East Politics and Society

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