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Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents
Dangerous Knowledge Orientalism and Its Discontents
Author: Robert Irwin
The publication of Edward Said's hugely influential Orientalism in 1981 called into question the entire history of the Western study of Islamic culture. Said's book condemned his scholarly tradition as an institution that presented inaccurate and demeaning representations of Islamic peoples, and came to dominate academic thinking. But wh...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781590200179
ISBN-10: 1590200179
Publication Date: 3/25/2008
Pages: 416
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Publisher: Overlook TP
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
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