Contending Visions of the Middle East
Contending Visions of the Middle East
The History and Politics of Orientalism
Zachary Lockman's informed and thoughtful history of European Orientalism and US Middle East studies, the 'clash of civilizations' debate and America's involvement in the region has become a highly recommended and widely used text since its publication in 2004. The second edition of Professor Lockman's book brings his analysis up to date by considering how the study of the Middle East has evolved in the intervening years, in the context of the US occupation of Iraq and the 'global war on terror'.
- Offers an alternative to some very widespread analyses of the Middle East and Islam
- Shows how Western knowledge of Islam and the Middle East has evolved within, and was affected by, particular circumstances and contexts, especially European and then US power in the Muslim world
- Takes on some of the leading contemporary analysts of Islam and shows the questionable assumptions and claims on which their approach rests
Product details
November 2009Paperback
9780521133074
344 pages
226 × 152 × 25 mm
0.48kg
6 maps
Available
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- 1. In the beginning
- 2. Islam, the West and the rest
- 3. Orientalism and empire
- 4. The American century
- 5. Turmoil in the field
- 6. Said's Orientalism: a book and its aftermath
- 7. After Orientalism?
- Afterword.
