Title Contending visions of the Middle East : the history and politics of Orientalism / Zachary Lockman

Published Cambridge, U.K. ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2004

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 308 pages) : maps Series The Contemporary Middle East ; 3 Contemporary Middle East ; 3. Contents Cover -- Dedication -- Contents -- Maps -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 In the beginning -- The cradle of the West? -- Conceptions of the world -- Roman legacies -- Christian conceptions of the world -- The coming of Islam -- The "age of ignorance" -- The Crusades -- Knowing the enemy -- Europe's Arab-Muslim heritage -- Images of Islam -- 2 Islam, the West and the rest -- The Ottomans in Europe -- The Ottoman image and the emergence of Orientalism -- Ottoman decline and Oriental despotism -- The beginnings of European global hegemony -- The West versus the rest? -- Explaining the "rise of the West" -- Islam and Enlightenment -- 3 Orientalism and empire -- The Oriental(ist) Renaissance -- The age of European encroachment -- The rise of homo islamicus -- Ernest Renan and and his interlocutors -- Karl Marx and Oriental despotism -- Max Weber and the sociology of Islam -- Orientalist knowledge and colonial power -- Colonialism and Islam -- 4 The American century -- Early twentieth-century Orientalism -- Ottoman despotism and decline revisited -- H.A.R. Gibb and modern Islam -- The United States becomes a global superpower -- The United States in the Middle East -- The rise of area studies -- Orientalism and the Cold War -- Modernizing the world -- In the trenches -- 5 Turmoil in the field -- The 1960s and the rise of a "New Left" -- "Dependency theory" as critique and alternative -- Changes in the Middle East -- Elaborating a critique -- The challenge of Islamism -- Elaborating alternatives: political economy and gender -- 6 Said's Orientalism: a book and its aftermath -- The Foucault connection -- Orientalism as a discourse -- Bernard Lewis responds -- Critical engagements -- Poststructuralism and the "linguistic turn" -- Colonial discourse and postcolonial theory -- 7 After Orientalism? -- Islam and Islamism ... again -- The question of terrorism -- The clash of civilizations -- The end of area studies? -- Scholars and the state -- Think tanks and talking heads -- Rough politics: blacklisting and the silencing of dissent -- Critique from the right -- Afterword -- Notes -- INTRODUCTION -- 1 IN THE BEGINNING -- 2 ISLAM, THE WEST AND THE REST -- 3 ORIENTALISM AND EMPIRE -- 4 THE AMERICAN CENTURY -- 5 TURMOIL IN THE FIELD -- 6 SAID'S ORIENTALISM: A BOOK AND ITS AFTERMATH -- 7 AFTER ORIENTALISM? -- Bibliography -- Index -- Last Page Summary The book offers a survey of Western knowledge about Islam and the Middle East, from conceptions of East and West in antiquity, through the emergence of Islam, to the present. It relates many of today's critical issues, including terrorism and Muslim extremism, to their broader historical and political contexts Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-303) and index Notes Print version record Subject Orientalism. Islam -- 20th century. Orientalism. HISTORY -- General. Islam Orientalism Education Oriëntalisme. Islam. Beeldvorming. Kennis. Onderzoek. SUBJECT Middle East -- Study and teaching. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85090514 Subject Middle East Naher Osten Form Electronic book ISBN 0521629373 9780521629379 0511211465 9780511211461 0521620805 9780521620802 0511213239 9780511213236 0511215045 9780511215049 0511216831 9780511216831 9780511606786 0511606788 1280540796 9781280540790 6610540799 9786610540792

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