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Relentlessly uncompromising and sometimes exasperating,
Toufic’s radical and visionary poetics gird the reader
to forge ahead into uncharted territory.… Although sometimes
couched in what looks like the language of critical theory,
Toufic’s formal hybridity and poetic methods sharply distinguish
Forthcoming from most other titles on those shelves
labeled Cultural, Poststructuralist, or Postcolonial Studies.…
One could not find in current film theory anything as suggestive
or useful as Toufic’s writing on the relationship of medieval
Islamic philosophy to certain contemporary Central Asian and
Middle Eastern cinematography.… Toufic’s interest
in figures and movements sometimes considered heretical in the
Islamic and Jewish traditions (the Nizaris, certain Shi'ites,
the cabalists) opens the way to significant reevaluations of
entire historical eras and relationships between languages,
cultures, and peoples. In his insistence upon treating the dead
as a great part of the potential force of this world, Toufic
plumbs the poetics of disaster and recuperation in ways that
remain both incredibly suggestive and relentlessly radical.
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