Talal Asad
Author
1933 –
Who is Talal Asad?
Talal Asad is an anthropologist at the CUNY Graduate Center.
Asad has made important theoretical contributions to post-colonialism, Christianity, Islam, and ritual studies and has recently called for, and initiated, an anthropology of secularism. Using a genealogical method developed by Friedrich Nietzsche and made prominent by Michel Foucault, Asad "complicates terms of comparison that many anthropologists, theologians, philosophers, and political scientists receive as the unexamined background of thinking, judgment, and action as such. By doing so, he creates clearings, opening new possibilities for communication, connection, and creative invention where opposition or studied indifference prevailed".
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- Born
- 1933
Saudi Arabia - Also known as
- Prof. Talal Asad
- Parents
- Religion
- Islam
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Saudi Arabia
- Profession
- Education
- University of Edinburgh
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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