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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Main Author: Kalmár, Ivan Davidson 1948- (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: London [u.a.] Routledge 2012
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
Further subjects:B Islam Europe Public opinion History
B Islam Study and teaching (Europe)
B Orientalism Europe History
B East and West
B Orientalism
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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
Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
ISBN:0415782767