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Postmodernism and Islam: Predicament and Promise . By Akbar S. Ahmed. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. 294 pp. $49.95 (cloth); $15.95 (paper).

of a critic for whom these are vital and felt issues. In this essay, he seems sure of his cultural location and intellectual vocation, productively distant from the American academy, which was his base until recently. I mention this also because Ahmad is often scathing about the apolitical, "techno-managerial expertise" (p. 81) that immigrant intellectuals bring to the metropolitan academy, perhaps the reason the book makes no mention that Ahmad had developed a similar career himself. One of the abiding ironies of this book, then, is its constant demand that we scrupulously identify and theorize the politics of our geographical location and ideological affiliation.