Early Orientalism
Subtitle: imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power
By: Ivan Kalmar
Series: Routledge Islamic studies series
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 178
ISBN-13: 9780415782760; 9780203154809
Subjects: East and West; Orientalism; Study and teaching; Islam
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot; title: Orientalism: what has and what has not been said; title: Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East; title: The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism; title: The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime; title: Rembrandt's Orient: where earth met heaven; title: The sublime East: the soft Orientalism of Bishop Lowth; title: The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel; title: Letter and spirit; title: The lord's command is greater than the lord; title: The all-seeing eye; title: The bad shepherd: pastoral government and its Oriental discontents; title: Sex in paradise: what suicide fighters die for; title: Epilogue on the value of submission: a eulogy for soft Orientalism.