Early Orientalism: Imagined Islam and the Notion of Sublime Power

By Ivan Kalmar

Book Overview

The history of western notions about Islam is of obvious scholarly as well as popular interest today. This book investigates Christian images of the Muslim Middle East, focusing on the period from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment, when the nature of divine as well as human power was under particularly intense debate in the West.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415782767
• ISBN13: 9780415782760
• Release Date: December 2011
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 178 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"