Status Updates From Islamic Liberation Theology

"The combination of its own innate absolutists tendencies and its combative contestations with colonialism, as well as with anti-colonial nationalism and socialism, inevitably pushed Islam towards the nomocentricity of its juridical disposition, rather than the logocentricity of its philosophies or the homocentricity of its varied forms of mysticism..." (110)

"Resisting the empire requires a whole global effort to rethink the most sacrosanct, among them major world religions, which can be, as they have been, as much the source of criminal carnage as the springboard of a crescendo of enabling liberation theologies."

"Retrieving the critical character of Malcolm X as a Muslim revolutionary is quintessential to any Islamic liberation project that must by definition include the ailing heart of this empire" (35)