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Dangerous knowledge : orientalism and its discontents / Robert Irwin.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Woodstock, NY : Overlook Press, 2008, c2006.Edition: [1st paperback ed.]Description: 409 p. ; 20 cmISBN:
  • 9781590200179
  • 1590200179
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • 439 DS 61.85 I72d 2008
Contents:
The clash of ancient civilizations -- An ancient heresy of a new paganism -- Renaissance orientalism -- The holiness of Oriental studies -- Enlightenment of a sort -- Oriental studies in the age of stream and cant -- A house divided against itself -- The all too brief heyday of Orientalism -- An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic -- Enemies of Orientalism.
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439 DS 61.7 L673n 2012 Notes on a century : reflections of a Middle East historian / 439 DS 61.7 M6271997 Middle Eastern politics and ideas : a history from within / 439 DS 61.85 D111c 2015 Can non-Europeans think? / 439 DS 61.85 I72d 2008 Dangerous knowledge : orientalism and its discontents / 439 DS 61.85 I82 2008 Islam and the Orientalist world-system / 439 DS 61.9 H841i 1991 Islam in European thought / 439 DS 62 M888m 1991 A middle east reader /

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The clash of ancient civilizations -- An ancient heresy of a new paganism -- Renaissance orientalism -- The holiness of Oriental studies -- Enlightenment of a sort -- Oriental studies in the age of stream and cant -- A house divided against itself -- The all too brief heyday of Orientalism -- An enquiry into the nature of a certain twentieth-century polemic -- Enemies of Orientalism.

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