ISBN:
9780203154809
Language:
English
Pages:
XII, 175 S.
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Ill.
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Online-Ausg
Series Statement:
Routledge Islamic studies series
Series Statement:
Routledge Islamic Studies Ser.
Parallel Title:
Print version Early Orientalism : Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power
DDC:
306.6/97091821
Keywords:
Islam - Study and teaching - Europe
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Electronic books
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Electronic books
Abstract:
Includes bibliographical references and index
Abstract:
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. Ivan Kalmar explores how the controversial notion of submission to ultimate authority has in the western world been discussed with reference to Islam's alleged recommendation to obey, unquestioningly, a merciless Allah in heaven and a despotic government on earth
Description / Table of Contents:
Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the notion of sublime powe; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgments; 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
Description / Table of Contents:
8 The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G. F. W. Hegel9 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; Appendix: table of contents of Rycaut's Present State of the Ottoman Empire; Notes; Bibliography; Index;
Note:
Description based upon print version of record
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Online-Ausg.
