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000437075 1001_ $$aAkbari, Suzanne Conklin.
000437075 24510 $$aIdols in the East :$$bEuropean representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 /$$cSuzanne Conklin Akbari.
000437075 260__ $$aIthaca :$$bCornell University Press,$$c2009.
000437075 300__ $$axii, 323 p. :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000437075 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000437075 5050_ $$aMedieval Orientalism? -- The shape of the world -- From Jerusalem to India -- The place of the Jews -- The Saracen body -- Empty idols and a false prophet -- The form of heaven -- A glance at early modern Orientalism.
000437075 5201_ $$a"Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the Islamist terrorist. In Idols in the East Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time." "Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism."--BOOK JACKET.
000437075 650_0 $$aChristianity and other religions$$xIslam.
000437075 650_0 $$aIslam$$xRelations$$xChristianity.
000437075 650_0 $$aOrientalism$$xHistory$$yTo 1500.
000437075 650_0 $$aIslam in literature.
000437075 650_0 $$aEast and West in literature.
000437075 650_0 $$aOrientalism in literature.
000437075 650_0 $$aLiterature, Medieval$$xHistory and criticism.
000437075 651_0 $$aEurope$$xRelations$$zIslamic Empire.
000437075 651_0 $$aIslamic Empire$$xRelations$$zEurope.
000437075 651_0 $$aEurope$$xRelations$$zLatin Orient.
000437075 651_0 $$aLatin Orient$$xRelations$$zEurope.
000437075 651_0 $$aLatin Orient$$xIn literature.
000437075 85200 $$bgen$$hDS35.74.E85$$iA43$$i2009
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