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¿There is always an atheism to be extracted from a religion,¿ Deleuze and Guattari write in their final collaboration, What Is Philosophy? Their claim that Christianity ¿secretes¿ atheism ¿more than any other religion,¿ however, reflects the limits of their archive. Theological projects seeking to engage Deleuze remain embedded within Christian theologies and intellectual histories; whether they embrace, resist, or negotiate with Deleuze¿s atheism, the atheism in question remains one extracted from Christian theology, a Christian atheism. In Sufi Deleuze, Michael Muhammad Knight offers an intervention, engaging Deleuzian questions and themes from within Islamic tradition. Even if Deleuze did not think of himself as a theologian, Knight argues, to place Deleuze in conversation with Islam is a project of comparative theology and faces the challenge of any comparative theology: It seemingly demands that complex, internally diverse traditions can speak as coherent, monolithic wholes. To start from such a place would not only defy Islam¿s historical multiplicity but also betray Deleuze¿s model of the assemblage, which requires attention to not only the organizing and stabilizing tendencies within a structure but also the points at which a structure resists organization, its internal heterogeneity, and unpredictable ¿lines of flight.¿A Deleuzian approach to Islamic theology would first have to affirm that there is no such thing as a universal ¿Islamic theology¿ that can speak for all Muslims in all historical settings, but rather a multiplicity of power struggles between major and minor forces that contest each other over authenticity, authority, and the making of ¿orthodoxy.¿ The discussions in Sufi Deleuze thus highlight Islam¿s extraordinary range of possibilities, not only making use of canonically privileged materials such as the Qur¿an and major hadith collections, but also exploring a variety of marginalized resources found throughout Islam that challenge the notion of a singular ¿mainstream¿ interpretive tradition. To say it in Deleuze¿s vocabulary, Islam is a rhizome.

This work tells the colourful story of the Bronx, starting with its development as a New York suburb and boomtown when hundreds of thousands of immigrants flowed into the borough. This edition includes a new final chapter describing the rebuilding of the borough by grass-roots groups since 1984.

Documents the life of a gifted African American leader whose contributions were pivotal to the movement for social justice and racial equalityFranklin Hall Williams was a visionary and trailblazer who devoted his life to the pursuit of civil rights¿not through acrimony and violence and hatred but through reason and example. A Bridge to Justice sheds new light on this practical, pragmatic bridge-builder and brilliant, complex individual whose life reflected the opportunities and constraints of an intellectually elite Black man in the twentieth century.Franklin H. Williams was considered a ¿bridge¿ figure, someone whose position outside the limelight allowed him to navigate both Black and white circles, span the more turbulent racial waters below, and persuade people to see the world in a new way. During his prolific lifetime, he was a civil rights leader, lawyer, diplomat, organizer of the Peace Corps, United Nations representative, foundation president, and associate of Thurgood Marshall on some of the seminal civil liberties cases of the past hundred years, though their relationship was so fraught with tension that Marshall had Williams sent to California. He worked in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, served as a diplomat, and became an exceptionally persuasive advocate for civil rights. Even after enduring the segregated Army, suffering cruel discrimination, and barely escaping a murderous lynch mob eager to make him pay for zealously representing three innocent Black men falsely accused of rape, Franklin was not a hater. He believed that Americans, in general, were good people who were open to reason and, in their hearts, sympathetic to fairness and justice.Dr. Enid Gort, an anthropologist and Africanist who conducted hundreds of hours of exclusive interviews with Williams, his family, friends, colleagues, and compatriots, and John M. Caher, a professional writer and legal journalist, have co-written an exhaustively researched and scrupulously documented account of this civil rights champion¿s life and impact. His story is an object lesson to help this nation heal and advance through unity rather than tribalism.