For Lust of Knowing - Robert Irwin
the orientalists and their enemies
KORTE INHOUD
Robert Irwin's history of Orientalism leads from Ancient Greece to the present. He shows that, whether making philological comparisons between Arabic and Hebrew, cataloguing the coins of Fatimid Egypt or establishing the basic chronology of Harun al-Rashid's military campaigns against Byzantium, scholars have been unified not by politics or ideology but by their shared obsession. For Lust of Knowing is an extraordinary, passionate book, both a sustained argument and a brilliant work of original scholarship.
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IRWIN Robert
For Lust of Knowing - The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Paperback, in-8, 602 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.
Irwin asks key questions about the history of academic orientalism, the importance of the study of Arabic and Islam, the role of imperialism and the influences of zionism and anti- semitism on academics working in this area. He combines historical research with personal and anecdotal knowledge.
Very good/Tres bel état/Sehr gut/Zeer goed
2007
Penguin UK
[Auteur: IRWIN Robert] ...
For Lust of Knowing - The Orientalists and Their Enemies
Paperback, in-8, 602 pp., bibliographical notes, bibliography, index.
Irwin asks key questions about the history of academic orientalism, the importance of the study of Arabic and Islam, the role of imperialism and the influences of zionism and anti- semitism on academics working in this area. He combines historical research with personal and anecdotal knowledge.
Very good/Tres bel état/Sehr gut/Zeer goed
2007
Penguin UK
[Auteur: IRWIN Robert] ...
