Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

ISBN-13: 9780415782760 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 178 str.

Ivan Kalmar

Opis

The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This text investigates how the Muslim Middle East was imagined in Christian Europe, focusing on the notion of sublime power and how the Orient was viewed as a negative image of European concepts.

Spis treści

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  8. The Sublime is not Enough: The Hard Orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel  9. 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

O autorze

Ivan Kalmar is a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His main work has addressed parallels in the image of Muslims and Jews in western Christian history.