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Early Orientalism [electronic resource] : imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power / Ivan Kalmar.

By: Contributor(s): Series: Routledge Islamic studies ; 18.Publication details: London : Routledge, c2012.Description: xii, 175 p. : illISBN:
  • 9780203154809
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Contents:
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.
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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.

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