Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Islamic mind , " or " the Arab character " -but of this subject more later . Thus , in order properly to understand the intellectual genealogy of interwar Islamic Orientalism - as it is most interestingly and satisfyingly seen ( no ...
... Islamic mind , " or " the Arab character " -but of this subject more later . Thus , in order properly to understand the intellectual genealogy of interwar Islamic Orientalism - as it is most interestingly and satisfyingly seen ( no ...
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... Islam by Massignon . ) Gibb's task as he saw it was to assess Islam , its present situation , its possible future course . In such a task the individual and manifestly different regions of the Islamic world were to be , not refutations of ...
... Islam by Massignon . ) Gibb's task as he saw it was to assess Islam , its present situation , its possible future course . In such a task the individual and manifestly different regions of the Islamic world were to be , not refutations of ...
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... Orient . Lamentably , there has been no demon- strable effect - if there has been a challenging gesture at all - made by Islamic or Arab scholars ' work disputing the dogmas of Oriental- ism ; an isolated article here or there , while ...
... Orient . Lamentably , there has been no demon- strable effect - if there has been a challenging gesture at all - made by Islamic or Arab scholars ' work disputing the dogmas of Oriental- ism ; an isolated article here or there , while ...
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