After orientalism : : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations / / edited by François Pouillon, Jean-Claude Vatin.
The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor – the political critique of “colonial science” – that had already significantly impacted the...
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| Superior document: | Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume 2 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015. ©2015 |
| Year of Publication: | 2015 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Leiden studies in Islam and society ;
Volume 2. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (303 p.) |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
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Table of Contents:
- Front Matter / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin
- Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History / François Pouillon
- The Real Discourses of Orientalism / Robert Irwin
- The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient / Léon Buskens and Baudouin Dupret
- The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals / Zakaria Rhani
- Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History / Jessica M. Marglin
- “It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples’ Ways of Life” / Olivier Herrenschmidt
- The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship / Edhem Eldem
- “Go West”: Variations on Kemalist Orientalism / Emmanuel Szurek
- Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin / Stéphane A. Dudoignon
- Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism / Elisabeth Allès
- The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869–2014): A Disoriented Heritage? / Jean-Gabriel Leturcq
- A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane / Emmanuelle Perrin
- Mohamed Galal (1906–1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist / Nicholas S. Hopkins
- Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge / Mouldi Lahmar
- Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition / Sylvette Larzul
- The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet / Alain de Pommereau
- Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles / Claire Nicholas
- Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? / Mercedes Volait
- After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals / Jean-Claude Vatin
- List of Contributors / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin
- Index / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin.