The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism: Reversing the Gaze

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Contents
List of figures
Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Introduction
1 On cooks and crooks: Aḥmad Fāris al-Shidyāq and the orientalists in England and France (1840s–1850s)
2 An eastern scholar’s engagement with the European study of the east: Amin al-Madani and the Sixth Oriental Congress, Leiden, 1883
3 The reception of the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam: An Egyptian debate on the credibility of orientalism (1930–1950)
4 Arabic literature for the colonizer and the colonized: Ignaz Goldziher and Hungary’s eastern politics (1878–1918)
5 Islamic modernism between colonialism and orientalism: Al-Manar’s intellectual circles and Aligarh’s Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, 1898–1914
6 The frustrating authority of Mr. Wells: Islam and the politics of orientalism in Republican China
7 Orientalist triangulations: Jewish scholarship on Islam as a response to Christian Europe
8 “Dieses wirklich westöstlichen Mannes”: The German-Jewish Orientalist Josef Horovitz in Germany, India, and Palestine
9 Scholarship on Islamic archaeology between Zionism and Arab nationalist movements
10 A Muslim convert to Christianity as an Orientalist in Europe – the case of the Moroccan Franciscan Jean-Mohammed Abdeljalil (1904–1979)
Bibliography
Index