Ursula Wokoeck

German Orientalism

The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

During the 19th century and the first part of the 20th German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in what we now call Orientalism. Drawing upon a survey of thousands of published works this book presents a history of the development of Oriental studies during this period.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 350
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 703g
• ISBN-13: 9780415464901
• ISBN-10: 0415464900
• Artikelnr.: 23593609

Autorenporträt

Ursula Wokoeck teaches Middle East history at the Rothberg International School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and at the Department for Middle East Studies, Ben-Gurion University; her research interests focus on developments in historiography and the social and legal history of the modern Middle East.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction 2. Working at the University 3. Writings and Writers on the
Middle East 4. The Establishment of Modern Oriental Studies 5. The
Beginning of Differentiation: Sanskrit and Semitic Languages 6. The
Emergence of Assyriology 7. Islamic Studies: The Emergence of a
(sub-)Discipline? 8. The Primacy of Political Factors: 1933-45 9.
Conclusion