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Words and their Worlds: A Conversation with Dilip M. Menon

In this Philological Conversation, Dilip M. Menon dwells on the questions of how to think concepts and theorize from the Global South and on writing history beyond the Eurocentric, colonial, nationalist, and terrestrial. We discuss the political and epistemic implications and consequences of such urgent tasks. Dilip M. Menon speaks about his affinities with Edward Said, Mikhail Bakhtin, and Walter Benjamin, among others, and refects on the themes of coloniality of knowledge, postcoloniality, decoloniality, oceanic history, and the idea of paracoloniality. A conversation with Mahmoud Al-Zayed.

An Unruly Persianate

By Purnima Dhavan. The Persianate world has long been defined as a distinct historical formation in the premodern era with a beginning and an end. More recently, scholars have rightly started to question this premature assumption of its demise. The special issue of Philological Encounters extends and complicates the argument about the long life of the Persianate. One hesitates to call it an afterlife, as it seems the “death” of the Persianate never happened.

What Was Philology in Arabic?

Editorial Introduction to Philological Encounters, Vol. 4.1-4. By Islam Dayeh If philology—as a set of conceptual tools and material practices concerned with the care for texts—came into being as a...

Entdecker der verlorenen Texte

von Peter Schraeder Auf der internationalen Konferenz “What was Philology in Arabic? Arabic-Islamic Textual Practices in the Early Modern World”, die vom 13.-15. Juli 2017 an der Freien Universität in...