Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents

Irwin, Robert

ISBN 10: 158567835X / ISBN 13: 9781585678358

Editore: The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY, 2006

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First edition 2006, first printing, numbers line starts with 1. Hardcover with DJ. Condition as nw, square tight and clean book, no edgewear, no markings of any kind, no names no underlinings no highlights no bent page corners, Not a reminder. DJ as new, bright and shiny, no tears no chips, Price Not clipped. 8vo, 410 pages including notes and index. Codice articolo 003984

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Titolo: Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its ...

Casa editrice: The Overlook Press, Woodstock, NY

Data di pubblicazione: 2006

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Fine

Edizione: 1st Edition

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Riassunto:

An alternate history of the disparaged intellectual tradition of Orientalism explores how western scholars of Islamic culture came to be vilified as agents of European imperialism, in an account that profiles the intellectual and eccentric figures who introduced the Islamic world to America.

L'autore:

Robert Irwin was born in 1946. He read modern history at Oxford and taught medieval history at the University of St. Andrews. He has held teaching appointments in Arabic and Middle Eastern history at Oxford and Cambridge.