Ivan Kalmar

Early Orientalism

Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

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Produktbeschreibung

The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly intense debate in the West.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 178
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Dezember 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 399g
• ISBN-13: 9780415782760
• ISBN-10: 0415782767
• Artikelnr.: 32729140

Autorenporträt

Ivan Kalmar is a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His main work has addressed parallels in the image of Muslims and Jews in western Christian history.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Lord: God, King, Father 1. The Obscene Father: Allah,
Jehovah and the Oriental Despot 2. Orientalism: What Has and What Has Not
Been Said 3. Proto-Orientalism: Ancient and Medieval Views of the East 4.
The Abduction from Asia: The Fall of Constantinople and the Beginning of
Modern Orientalism 5. The Turks of Prague: The Mundane and the Sublime 6.
Rembrandt's Orient: Where Earth Met Heaven 7. The Sublime East: The Soft
Orientalism of Bishop Lowth 8. The Sublime is not Enough: The Hard
Orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel 9. Letter and Spirit 10. The Lord's Command is
Greater than the Lord 11. The All-Seeing Eye 12. The Bad Shepherd: Pastoral
Government and its Oriental Discontents 13. Sex in Paradise: What Suicide
Fighters Die For. Epilogue on the Value of Submission: A Eulogy for Soft
Orientalism