Early Orientalism : imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power /
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge Islamic studies.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
