Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers: Nineteenth-Century Literary Approaches to Arab-Islamic History (Comparative Cultures and Literatures) - Hardcover

Al-Da'mi, Muhammed A.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820461261 ISBN 13: 9780820461267

Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2002

Synopsis

The value of Arab-Islamic history in Western thought has undergone many vicissitudes, but it is now greater than ever. This book investigates the intellectual motives and compulsions that hide behind the nineteenth-century British and American elite’s invocation of this history. The touchstones are many – the prophet, the Caliphate, the conquests, and Muslim Spain to mention a few. Al-Da’mi discusses such issues in an attempt not only to show their relevance to domestic problems, but also to trace the roots of an idea and to forecast future crises and dialogues. The book’s finale demonstrates the unbridgeable gap between Eastern and Western approaches to the Islamic past.

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About the Author:

The Author: Muhammed A. Al-Da’mi is Professor of English and Orientalist Literature at Baghdad University, College of Education for Women. He is author of four books (in Arabic) and numerous scholarly papers. He contributes to the Arabic press almost weekly.

About this edition

• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 0820461261
• ISBN 13: 9780820461267
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 235