Early Orientalism imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power / Ivan Kalmar.
| Author/creator | Kalmar, Ivan Davidson |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2012. |
| Description | xii, 175 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Routledge Islamic studies series ; 18 Routledge Islamic studies. ^A718447 |
| Contents | The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot -- Orientalism: what has and what has not been said -- Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East -- The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism -- The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime -- Rembrandt's Orient: where earth met heaven -- The sublime East: the soft Orientalism of Bishop Lowth -- The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel -- Letter and spirit -- The lord's command is greater than the lord -- The all-seeing eye -- The bad shepherd: pastoral government and its Oriental discontents -- Sex in paradise: what suicide fighters die for -- Epilogue on the value of submission: a eulogy for soft Orientalism. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 138-169) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2011023186 |
| ISBN | 9780415782760 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 0415782767 (hardback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |