ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Ismael Ferroukhi's film Le Grand Voyage, which eschews the language of postcolonial politics altogether, presenting cosmological and spiritual worldviews that read geographies and peoples in an alternative framework to that of power. It provides the film Le grand voyage, which re-interprets the diasporic voyage genre altogether. Le grand voyage de-centres diasporic identities from Republican secular France to the vast changing landscapes, cultures and peoples of Europe, the Levant and Arabia, as explored through a North African father and Reda, taking a 'road trip' from France to Makkah. In British India, the poet, philosopher and statesman Muhammad Iqbal shared his concept of khudi, or the self/selfhood, envisioning Muslim reform suited to the demands of the present. The chapter concludes with notions of the upper and lower limits of the law that can help us to articulate Europe's relationship with legal structures.
