1st Edition
Early Orientalism Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power
By Ivan Kalmar
Copyright 2012
192 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
192 Pages
19 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly intense debate in the West.
Ivan Kalmar explores how the controversial notion of... Read more
Introduction: The Lord: God, King, Father 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. Epilogue on the Value of Submission: A Eulogy for Soft Orientalism
Biography
Ivan Kalmar is a professor at the University of Toronto, Canada. His main work has addressed parallels in the image of Muslims and Jews in western Christian history.
