Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers
Subtitle: Nineteenth-Century Literary Approaches to Arab-Islamic History (Comparative Cultures and Literatures, V. 17)
Contributors: Daniel Walden (Editor)
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
Published: September 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 235
ISBN-13: 9780820461267
Subjects: History; History - General History; History: American; World - General; General; 19th century; Civilization, Islamic; Historiography; Orientalism
Description: "This book investigates the intellectual motives and compulsions that hide behind the nineteenth-century British and American elite's invocation of this history. The touchstones are many - the prophet, the Caliphate, the conquests, and Muslim Spain to mention a few. Al-Da'mi discusses such issues in an attempt, not only to show their relevance to domestic problems, but also to trace the roots of an idea and to forecast future crises and dialogues.

The book's finale demonstrates the unbridgeable gap between Eastern and Western approaches to the Islamic past."--BOOK JACKET.