[PDF.08uw] Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India

Orientalism and Islam: European Thinkers on Oriental Despotism in the Middle East and India

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 | #285951 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2009-12-31 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.21 x.87 x6.14l,1.27 | File type: PDF | 392 pages

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||8 of 20 people found the following review helpful.| avoid|By D. McInerney|I don't generally write such negative reviews, and especially not on books that have ventured into areas that are of a deep interest of mine. I have to say though that this book contains very little that is original or scholarly, and merely repeats what its subjects have said, right down to their very prose. Rather than proceed further with critique, I| |"Michael Curtis has written a discerning, authoritative book of intellectual history. He takes us back to the greats - Burke and Mill and Marx and Tocqueville and Weber - and throws a floodlight on the present. He has read widely and thoughtfully. From his

Through an historical analysis of the theme of Oriental despotism, Michael Curtis reveals the complex positive and negative interaction between Europe and the Orient. The book also criticizes the misconception that the Orient was the constant victim of Western imperialism and the view that Westerners cannot comment objectively on Eastern and Muslim societies. The book views the European concept of Oriental despotism as based not on arbitrary prejudicial observation, but ...

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