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050 00 $aDS35.74.E85$bA43 2009
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100 1 $aAkbari, Suzanne Conklin.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2004056108
245 10 $aIdols in the East :$bEuropean representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 /$cSuzanne Conklin Akbari.
260 $aIthaca :$bCornell University Press,$c2009.
300 $axii, 323 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 00 $gIntroduction.$tMedieval Orientalism? --$g1.$tThe shape of the world --$g2.$tFrom Jerusalem to India --$g3.$tThe place of the Jews --$g4.$tThe Saracen body --$g5.$tEmpty idols and a false prophet --$g6.$tThe form of heaven --$gConclusion.$tA glance at early modern Orientalism.
520 1 $a"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." "Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism."--BOOK JACKET.
651 0 $aEurope$xRelations$zIslamic Empire.
651 0 $aIslamic Empire$xRelations$zEurope.
651 0 $aEurope$xRelations$zLatin Orient.
651 0 $aLatin Orient$xRelations$zEurope.
650 0 $aChristianity and other religions$xIslam.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85025266
650 0 $aIslam$xRelations$xChristianity.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068406
650 0 $aOrientalism$xHistory$yTo 1500.
650 0 $aIslam in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068431
651 0 $aLatin Orient$xIn literature.
650 0 $aEast and West in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh94003996
650 0 $aOrientalism in literature.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2001008934
650 0 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85077549
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