Orientalism, Volume 10A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—decades after its first publication—one of the most important books written about our divided world. |
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... Massignon's “ Orient ” was completely consonant with the world of the Seven Sleepers or of the Abrahamanic prayers ( which are the two themes singled out by Gibb as distinctive marks of Massignon's unorthodox view of Islam ) : offbeat ...
... Massignon's “ Orient ” was completely consonant with the world of the Seven Sleepers or of the Abrahamanic prayers ( which are the two themes singled out by Gibb as distinctive marks of Massignon's unorthodox view of Islam ) : offbeat ...
Page 270
... Massignon's method , the East - West opposition turns up in a most peculiar way . At its best , Massignon's vision of the East - West encounter assigned great responsibility to the West for its invasion of the East , its colonialism ...
... Massignon's method , the East - West opposition turns up in a most peculiar way . At its best , Massignon's vision of the East - West encounter assigned great responsibility to the West for its invasion of the East , its colonialism ...
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... Massignon is less a mythologized " genius " than he is a kind of system for producing certain kinds of state- ments , disseminated into the large mass of discursive formations that together make up the archive , or cultural material ...
... Massignon is less a mythologized " genius " than he is a kind of system for producing certain kinds of state- ments , disseminated into the large mass of discursive formations that together make up the archive , or cultural material ...
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