Screen LibraryIdols in the East：European representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450
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Cornell University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Ithaca |
| Publication Dates: | 2009. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xii, 323 p.: ill. ; 25 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780801448072 (cloth : alk. paper) 0801448077 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | B929 |
| CLC: | B929.5 |
| Call Number: | B929.5/A313 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. Medieval Orientalism? -- The shape of the world -- From Jerusalem to India -- The place of the Jews -- The Saracen body -- Empty idols and a false prophet -- The form of heaven -- A glance at early modern Orientalism. "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 in the East Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time." --BOOK JACKET. |