Early Orientalism imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power / [electronic resource] :
Ivan Kalmar.
- London : Routledge, c2012.
- xii, 175 p. : ill.
- Routledge Islamic studies series ; 18 .
- Routledge Islamic studies ; 18. .
Includes bibliographical references (p. [159]-169) and index.
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.
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
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