The disenchantment of the Orient
Subtitle: expertise in Arab affairs and the Israeli state
By: Gil Eyal.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Jewish-Arab relations -- Historiography; Orientalism -- Israel; Middle East specialists -- Israel; Palestinian Arabs -- Israel -- Historiography; Palestine -- History -- 1917-1948 -- Historiography; Israel -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: What is mizrahanut? a methodological introduction; title: The Jews underneath the Arab's mask: the experience of the Orient in the pre-state period; title: The field of Orientalist expertise before 1948; title: The struggle over jurisdiction, 1948-1953; title: The discourse about the Arab village; title: Military intelligence and Middle Eastern studies.