Idols in the East : : European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 / / Suzanne Conklin Akbari.
Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In Idols...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (336 p.) :; 6 halftones, 6 line drawings |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Medieval Orientalism?
- 1. The Shape of the World
- 2. From Jerusalem to India
- 3. The Place of the Jews
- 4. The Saracen Body
- 5. Empty Idols and a False Prophet
- 6. The Form of Heaven
- Conclusion: A Glance at Early Modern Orientalism
- Works Cited
- Index