The Middle East and North Africa
Subtitle: Medieval and Modern History
Publisher: Haworth Press
Published: February 1983
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 125
ISBN-13: 9780917724459
Subjects: Historiography; Study and teaching; History - General History; History: World; Middle East - General; Africa, North; Middle East
First sentence: The establishment of Middle Eastern studies, until recently known as Orientalism, grew out of "the decision of the Church council of Vienne in 1312 to establish a series of chairs in Arabic, Greek, Hebrew, and Syraic at Paris, Oxford, Bologna, Avignon, and Salamanca" (Edward Said, Orientalism, New York, 1979, p. 50).