The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism : Reversing the Gaze / edited by Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Heschel, Susannah, editor.

Riyāḍ, ʻAmr, editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in modern history ; 42.

Routledge studies in modern history ; 42

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orientalism.

Islam--Study and teaching--Europe.

Islam.

East and West.

Middle East--Study and teaching--Europe.

Middle East.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (273 pages).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, [2018].

Summary:

Edward Said’s Orientalism, now more than fifty years old, has to be one of the most frequently cited books among academics in a wide range of disciplines, and the most frequently assigned book to undergraduates at colleges. Among the common questions raised in response to Said’s book: Did scholars in Western Europe provide crucial support to the imperialist, colonialist activities of European regimes? Are their writings on Islam laden with denigrating, eroticized, distorting biases that have left an indelible impact on Western society? What is the "Orientalism" invented by Europe and what is its impact today? However, one question has been less raised (or less has been done about the question): How were the Orientalist writings of European scholars of Islam received among their Muslim contemporaries? An international team of contributors rectify this oversight in this volume.

Contents:

On Cooks and Crooks : Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq and the Orientalists in England and France (1840s-1850s) / Tarek el-Ariss

Experiencing Orientalism : Amin al-Madani and the Sixth Oriental Congress, Leiden, 1883 / Kathryn Anne Schwartz

The Reception of the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam : An Egyptian Debate on the Credibility of Orientalism / Said F. Hassen and Abdallah Omran

Arabic Literature for the Colonizer and the Colonized : Ignaz Goldziher and Hungary's Eastern Politics 1878-1918 / Katalin Rac

Islamic Modernism between Colonialism and Orientalism : Al-Manar's Intellectual Circles and Aligarh's Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, 1898-1914 / Roy Bar-Sadeh

The Frustrating Authority of Mr. Wells : Islam and the Politics of Orientalism in Republican China / Aaron Glasserman

Orientalist Triangulations : Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Response to Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel

"Dieses wirklich westöstlichen Mannes" : The German-Jewish Orientalist Josef Horovitz in Germany, India, and Palestine / Ruchama Johnston-Bloom

Scholarship on Islamic Archaeology Between Zionism and Arab Nationalist Movements / Mostafa Hussein

A Muslim Convert to Christianity as an Orientalist in Europe : The Case of the Moroccan Franciscan Jean-Mohammed Abdeljalil / Mehdi Sajid.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-31377-4

1-315-31375-8

1-315-31376-6

9781315313771

OCLC:

1055569204