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Idols in the East : European representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 /

"Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the Islamist terrorist. In Idols in the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Akbari, Suzanne Conklin
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Medieval Orientalism?
  • The shape of the world
  • From Jerusalem to India
  • The place of the Jews
  • The Saracen body
  • Empty idols and a false prophet
  • The form of heaven
  • A glance at early modern Orientalism.