After orientalism : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations /

The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor - the political critique of "colonial science" - that had already significant...

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Corporate Author: Colloque "L'orientalisme et après? - Méditations, appropriations, contestations" Paris, France)

Other Authors: Pouillon, Franc̦ois., Vatin, Jean-Claude.

Format: Conference Proceeding eBook

Language: English
French

Published: Boston ; Leiden : Brill, [2015]

Series: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society 2.
Middle East and Islamic Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2015, ISBN: 9789004287464.

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Call Number: DS61.85 .C6513 2015

Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter /
  • François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin
  • Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History /
  • François Pouillon
  • The Real Discourses of Orientalism /
  • Robert Irwin
  • The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient /
  • Léon Buskens and Baudouin Dupret
  • The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals /
  • Zakaria Rhani
  • Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History /
  • Jessica M. Marglin
  • "It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples' Ways of Life" /
  • Olivier Herrenschmidt
  • The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship /
  • Edhem Eldem
  • "Go West": Variations on Kemalist Orientalism /
  • Emmanuel Szurek
  • Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin /
  • Stéphane A. Dudoignon
  • Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism /
  • Elisabeth Allès
  • The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869-2014): A Disoriented Heritage? /
  • Jean-Gabriel Leturcq
  • A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane /
  • Emmanuelle Perrin
  • Mohamed Galal (1906-1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist /
  • Nicholas S. Hopkins
  • Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge /
  • Mouldi Lahmar
  • Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition /
  • Sylvette Larzul
  • The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet /
  • Alain de Pommereau
  • Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles /
  • Claire Nicholas
  • Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? /
  • Mercedes Volait
  • After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals /
  • Jean-Claude Vatin
  • List of Contributors /
  • François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin
  • Index /
  • François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin.