ABSTRACT

Anouar Majid, a Moroccan diasporic writer in the US, is the author of one novel and five critically acclaimed books on Islam and the West. His latest unfavourable polemics against Islam as well as his seeming detour from the pursuits for diverse stronger religions and cultures to the Universalist ideals of the Founding Fathers are likely to provoke controversies. However, this paper argues that the diasporic ethos of openness and dialogism in his novel Si Yussef continues to prevail in his polemical scholarship of Islam and America. Majid’s succinct call for espousing the ideals of America’s Founding Fathers emanates from the latter’s incarnation of the imaginary of tout-monde (‘unity-diversity’), as theorised by Edouard Glissant’s poetics of Relation. In their acceptance of all sorts of differences and denunciation of dialectical philosophies in the context of universal humanity, the Founding Fathers and their ghost scholars envisage secular cosmopolitanism as a panacea to the troubled relationship between Islam and America.

摘要

Anouar Majid 是一位在美国的摩洛哥侨民作家，着有一部关于伊斯兰教和西方的小说和五本广受好评的书籍。他最近对伊斯兰教不利的论战，以及他似乎从追求各种更强大的宗教和文化转向开国元勋的普遍主义理想，这可能会引发争议。然而，本文认为，他的小说Si Yussef中的开放和对话主义的流散精神继续在他对伊斯兰教和美国的辩论性学术研究中占主导地位。马吉德简洁地呼吁拥护美国开国元勋的理想，这源于后者对吹捧世界的想象的化身（'统一-多样性'），正如爱德华·格里桑的关系诗学所理论化的那样。开国元勋和他们的幽灵学者在接受各种差异和谴责普遍人性背景下的辩证哲学时，将世俗的世界主义视为解决伊斯兰教与美国之间陷入困境的关系的灵丹妙药。