Early orientalism : imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power /: imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power. (2013)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Ivan Kalmar.
• Other Names: Kalmar, Ivan Davidson
• Contents: The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot -- Orientalism: what has and what has not been said -- Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East -- The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism -- The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime -- Rembrandt's Orient: where earth met heaven -- The sublime East: the soft Orientalism of Bishop Lowth -- The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel -- Letter and spirit -- The lord's command is greater than the lord -- The all-seeing eye -- The bad shepherd: pastoral government and its Oriental discontents -- Sex in paradise: what suicide fighters die for -- Epilogue on the value of submission: a eulogy for soft Orientalism.
• Publisher Details: Place of publication not identified : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2013
• Extent: 1 online resource (192 pages), (3 illustrations)
• Subjects: 306.697091821; HISTORY / Civilization; RELIGION / Islam / General; Orientalism; Islam -- Study and teaching -- Europe; East and West
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781136578908; 1136578900
• Access Rights: Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
• Access Usage: Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.