Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents by Robert Irwin

Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents

Robert Irwin

376 pages first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history politics adventurous informative slow-paced
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The publication of Edward Said's hugely influential Orientalism in 1981 called into question the entire history of the Western study of Islamic culture, condemning this scholarly tradition as one that presented inaccurate and deliberately demeanin...

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