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Beschreibung
According to simplistic textbook knowledge about Edward Said's Orientalism, there was an intimate complicity between oriental studies and colonial domination. The allegations of Orientalism - the sophisticated polemic of a learned academic and public intellectual from the United States - have become conventional wisdom about an entire scholarly field. In analyzing the origins and rise of the academic discipline of Islamic studies, this book challenges the fundamentally reductive and pejorative interpretation of European scholarship on Islam. Applying both macro and micro level perspectives, this book investigates the complexities of the relationship between religion, science, and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, putting on trial the trivialization of Edward Said's work.
According to simplistic textbook knowledge about Edward Said's Orientalism, there was an intimate complicity between oriental studies and colonial domination. The allegations of Orientalism - the sophisticated polemic of a learned academic and public intellectual from the United States - have become conventional wisdom about an entire scholarly field. In analyzing the origins and rise of the academic discipline of Islamic studies, this book challenges the fundamentally reductive and pejorative interpretation of European scholarship on Islam. Applying both macro and micro level perspectives, this book investigates the complexities of the relationship between religion, science, and colonialism in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, putting on trial the trivialization of Edward Said's work.
Über den Autor
Dietrich Jung is Professor of Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Southern Denmark and author of Orientalists, Islamists and the Global Public Sphere: A Genealogy of the Modern Essentialist Image of Islam (Equinox, 2011).
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2026
Fachbereich: Allgemeines
Genre: Importe, Religion & Theologie
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Thema: Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
ISBN-13: 9781800508675
ISBN-10: 1800508670
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Jung, Dietrich
Hersteller: Equinox Publishing Ltd
Verantwortliche Person für die EU: Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße: 234 x 156 x 17 mm
Von/Mit: Dietrich Jung
Erscheinungsdatum: 15.04.2026
Gewicht: 0,471 kg
Artikel-ID: 135568212