European modernity and the Arab Mediterranean
Subtitle: toward a new philology and a counter-orientalism
By: Karla Mallette.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780812242416
Subjects: Arabic philology -- History -- 19th century; Arabic philology -- History -- 20th century; Islamic civilization; Scheherazade (Legendary character); Europe -- Civilization -- Arab influences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Scheherazade among the philologists (Paris, 1704); title: Metempsychosis : Dante, Petrarch, and the Arab Middle Ages; title: I nostri saracini : writing the history of the Arabs of Sicily; title: The ramparts of Europe : the invention of the Maltese language; title: The life and times of Enrico Cerulli; title: Amalgams : Emilio Garcia Gomez (s. XX), Alvarus (s. IX), and philology after the nation; title: Scheherazade at home (Baghdad, A.D. 803;; title: London and Hollywood, 1939).