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Enough Said
Review by Martin Kramer of Robert Irwin, Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and its Discontents (Woodstock: Overlook Press, 2006). The review appeared in Commentary, March 2007. Posted retroactively at Sandbox. THE British historian Robert Irwin is the sort of scholar who, in times past, would have been proud to call himself an Orientalist. The traditional Orientalist was …
Those other Orientalists
A few months back, art historian Kristian Davies sent me a copy of his new book The Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, the Sahara, Persia and India. This is more than a lavishly illustrated decoration for a coffee table. It's a provocative dissent from the Saidian take on nineteenth-century Orientalist art. I'll let Davies say …
Orientalists: there when you need them
Edward Said famously omitted any discussion of German orientalists from his book Orientalism, and he skipped the Italians too. So I rejoice whenever I see one of these remote figures resurrected, and all the more so when it's done by Arabs, now grateful for the work of those dead white Europeans who devoted their lives …
Leading orientalists arrived today
Today I received my subscriber's copy of the Encyclopaedia of Islam supplement. That's volume 12 of the project, which brings it to a conclusion after nearly fifty years. It's completely irrational to own a hard copy of the encyclopaedia, since today you can buy a CD version or subscribe to it online. The supplement alone …
Orientalism and the Jews
Back in 1996, to honor Bernard Lewis on his 80th birthday, I organized a conference. The proceedings appeared as a book, The Jewish Discovery of Islam. Now there appears a new book, Orientalism and the Jews, edited by Ivan Kalmar and Derek Penslar, who develop other aspects of the subject. (Jacket blurb here.) It's got …
Edward Said and Twelve Disciples at Post-Orientalist Passover
Today, Columbia University marks twenty-five years to the publication of Edward Said's book Orientalism, with a day of lectures at the Casa Italiana. Twelve panelists and discussants will consider the book and its author, who will offer his own concluding remarks this evening. Don't expect a critical appreciation of Orientalism and its influence. These are …
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