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Abdelkebir Khatibi (1938-2009) is one of the greatest Moroccan thinkers, and one of the most important theorists of both postcolonialism and Islamic culture of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This book introduces his works to Anglophone readers, tracing his development from the early work on sociology in Morocco to his literary and aesthetic works championing transnationalism and multilingualism. The essays here both offer close analyses of Khatibi's engagements with a range of issues, from Moroccan politics to Arabic calligraphy and from decolonisation to interculturality, and highlights the important contribution of his thinking to the development of Western postcolonial and modern theory. The book acknowledges the legacy of one of the greatest African thinkers of the last century, and addresses the lack of attention to his work in the field of postcolonial studies. More than a writer, a sociologist or a thinker, Khatibi was a leading figure and an eclectic intellectual whose erudite works can still inform and enrich current reflections on the future of postcolonialism and the development of intercultural and transnational studies. The book also includes translated excerpts from Khatibi's works, thus offering a multilingual perspective on his writing.Contributors: Assia Belhabib, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani, Dominique Combe, Rim Feriani, Charles Forsdick, Olivia C. Harrison, Jane Hiddleston, Debra Kelly, Khalid Lyamlahy, Lucy McNeece, Matt Reeck, Alison Rice, Nao Sawada, Andy Stafford, Edwige Tamalet Talbayev, Alfonso de Toro Introduction / Jane Hiddleston and Khalid Lyamlahy -- I. Critical Thinking: From Decolonization to Transnationalism -- 1. The 'Souverainement Orphelin' of Abdelkébir Khatibi's early writings: sociology in the Souffles years / Andy Stafford -- 2. Tireless translation: travels, transcriptions, tongues and the eternal plight of the 'Étranger professionnel' in the corpus of Abdelkébir Khatibi' / Alison Rice -- 3. Abdelkébir Khatibi's Mediterranean idiom / Edwige Tamalet Talbayev -- 4. Abdelkébir Khatibi and the transparency of language / Assia Belhabib, translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston -- 5. Khatibi and performativity, 'From where to speak?': living, thinking and writing with an 'epistemological accent' / Alfonso Toro -- II: Cultural and Philosophical Dialogues -- 6. Khatibi and the transcolonial turn / Olivia C. Harrison -- 7. Segalen and Khatibi: bilingualism, alterity and the poetics of diversity / Charles Forsdick -- 8. Khatibi and Derrida: A 'Franco-Maghrebian' dialogue / Dominique Combe, translated from the French by Jane Hiddleston-- 9. Maghrebian shadow: Abdelkébir Khatibi and Japanese culture / Nao Sawada -- III: Aesthetics and Art in the Islamic World and Beyond -- 10. Reading signs and symbols with Abdelkébir Khatibi: from the body to the text / Rim Feriani, Jasmina Bolfek-Radovani and Debra Kelly -- 11. Abdelkébir Khatibi: the other side of the mirror / Lucy Stone McNeece -- 12. The carpet as a text, the writer as a weaver: reading the Moroccan carpet with Abdelkébir Khatibi / Khalid Lyamlahy -- 13. The artist's journey, or, the journey as art: aesthetics and ethics in the Pèlerinage d'un artiste amoureux and beyond / Jane Hiddleston -- IV: Translations -- 14. Excerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi, La Blessure du nom propre (Paris: Editions Denoël, 1974) / Translated from the French by Matt Reeck -- 15. Excerpts from Abdelkébir Khatibi and Jacques Hassoun, Le Même Livre (Paris: Editions de l'Eclat, 1985) / Translated from the French by Olivia C. Harrison -- Notes on Contributors.
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