Early Orientalism: imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power
The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot -- Orientalism: what has and what has not been said -- Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East -- The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism -- The Turks of Prague: the mund...
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| Format: | Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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| WorldCat: | WorldCat |
| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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London [u.a.]
Routledge
2012
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| In: |
Routledge Islamic studies series (18)
Year: 2012 |
| Series/Journal: | Routledge Islamic studies series
18 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Western world
/ Orient
/ Islam
/ History
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| Further subjects: | B
Islam Europe Public opinion History
B Islam Study and teaching (Europe) B Orientalism Europe History B East and West B Orientalism |
| Summary: | The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot -- Orientalism: what has and what has not been said -- Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East -- The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism -- The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime -- Rembrandt's Orient: where earth met heaven -- The sublime East: the soft Orientalism of Bishop Lowth -- The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel -- Letter and spirit -- The lord's command is greater than the lord -- The all-seeing eye -- The bad shepherd: pastoral government and its Oriental discontents -- Sex in paradise: what suicide fighters die for -- Epilogue on the value of submission: a eulogy for soft Orientalism |
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| Item Description: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Physical Description: | XII, 175 S., Ill., 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 978-0-415-78276-0 0-415-78276-7 |
