Abdirahman Hussein

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Abdirahman Hussein (born in Hargeisa, Somaliland) is a scholar and teacher who taught at the University of Tennessee in Knoxville. He is best known for his book on Edward Said, Edward Said: Criticism and Society (London: Verso, 2002), in which he offers a critical study of Said and his influences.{{cite book|last=Robbins|first=Bruce W.|editor=David Palumbo-Liu|others=Bruce W. Robbins, Nirvana Tanouki|title=Immanuel Wallerstein and the Problem of the World: System, Scale, Culture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X1fACHdx8QoC&pg=PA47|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2011|publisher=Duke UP|isbn=9780822348481|pages=41–66|chapter=Blaming the System}} The book was praised by Bart Moore-Gilbert for its "judicious critique" of Moore-Gilbert's own 1997 study of Said in which, he says, he did not pay sufficient attention to the "Palestinian dimensions and orientations of Said's thinking".{{cite book|last=Moore-Gilbert|first=B. J.|title=Postcolonial Life-Writing: Culture, Politics and Self-Representation|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NMdtX8sdiKMC&pg=PA153|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2009|publisher=Taylor & Francis|isbn=9780415443005|page=153}} Also noted is Hussein's "triangulation" of Joseph Conrad, whose Heart of Darkness is, according to Hussein, "foundational to Said's entire career and project".{{cite book|last=McCarthy|first=Conor|title=The Cambridge Introduction to Edward Said|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pagV6FegTJoC&pg=PA16|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2010|publisher=Cambridge UP|isbn=9781139491402|pages=16–}} One of Hussein's focal points is Said's 1976 book Beginnings: Intention and Method, whose importance he says is overlooked.{{cite book|editor=Ferial J. Gbazoul|title=Edward Said and Critical Decolonization|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uf9_dbmJyQkC&pg=PA259|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2007|publisher=American U in Cairo P|isbn=9789774160875|pages=254–69|chapter=Terry Eagleton: Edward Said, Cultural Politics, and Critical Theory (An Interview)}}{{cite book|last=Abraham|first=Matthew|editor=Sylvia Nagy-Zekmi|title=Paradoxical Citizenship: Edward Said|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=az2Py9U53EIC&pg=PA77|accessdate=27 February 2013|year=2006|publisher=Lexington|isbn=9780739109885|page=77|chapter=Territorial Ambition}}