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Bio-ética islâmica : aportes epistemológicos desde o pensamento decolonial e os feminismos islâmicos by Osman, Elzahrã Mohamed Radwan Omar

“…As Islamic bioethics is a product of modernity, it becomes necessary to understand the phenomena of Islam and the shariah from that historical standpoint but also from the perspective of critical thought about it, that is, de-colonial thought. Islamic feminisms are presented also both as criticism of modernity, as they talk about the project of de-colonial feminisms, that is, from a standpoint of criticism of western feminism, but also as a criticism of what we refer to as modern Islam. …”
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(Po)ética da opacidade : raça, memória, espectro by Osman, Elzahrã Mohamed Radwan Omar

“…In this sense, the thesis investigates the constitution of otherness in the so-called “modern text”, as well as presents some contemporary discussions that sought to produce thought from what Walter Mignolo called the “colonial difference”. Starting from the diagnosis of the constitution of the transparent self (the constitution of the subject in the postEnlightenment) in da Silva and from the prerogative set by Glissant regarding opacity, I try to draw what would be the end of the racial arsenal and the end of this world from that what is left: the ghosts, the traces, and the specters. …”
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