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005			20240726105442.0
008			090224s2009 nyua ob s001 0 eng d
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020			_a9780801464980 _q((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)l((electronic)l(electronic)ctronic)ctronic bk.
029	1		_aNZ1 _b15024230
050	1	4	_aDS35 _b.I365 2009
049			_aNTA
100	1		_aAkbari, Suzanne Conklin. _e1
245	1	0	_aIdols in the East _bEuropean representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 / _cSuzanne Conklin Akbari.
260			_aIthaca : _bCornell University Press, _c(c)2009.
300			_a1 online resource (xii, 323 pages :) _billustrations.
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
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505	0	0	_aMedieval Orientalism? -- _tThe shape of the world -- _tFrom Jerusalem to India -- _tThe place of the Jews -- _tThe Saracen body -- _tEmpty idols and a false prophet -- _tThe form of heaven -- _tA glance at early modern Orientalism.
520	1		_a"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 East Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims-the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist-and about how these stereotypes developed over time." "Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are The Book of John Mandeville, The Song of Roland, Parzival, and Dante's Divine Comedy. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the differences they saw between themselves and the Muslim other. Looking forward, Akbari also comes to terms with how these medieval conceptions fit with modern discussions of Orientalism, thus providing an important theoretical link to postcolonial and postimperial scholarship on later periods. Far reaching in its implications and balanced in its judgments, Idols in the East will be of great interest to not only scholars and students of the Middle Ages but also anyone interested in the roots of Orientalism and its tangled relationship to modern racism and anti-Semitism."--Book Jacket.
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650		0	_aChristianity and other religions _xIslam.
650		0	_aIslam _xRelations _xChristianity.
650		0	_aOrientalism _xHistory _yTo 1500.
650		0	_aIslam in literature.
650		0	_aEast and West in literature.
650		0	_aOrientalism in literature.
650		0	_aLiterature, Medieval _xHistory and criticism.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=671335&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell