Europe and the Mystique of Islam

188 Pages·1987·6.151 MB·English, French

by  Maxime Rodinson, Roger Veinus

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EUROPE AND THE MYSTIQUE OF ISLAM
Near Eastern Studies
University of Washington
Number Four
This book has been published with support from
The Farhat J. Ziadeh Fund for Arab and Islamic Studies
University of Washington
M A X I M E R O D I N S O N
Europe and the Mystique of Islam
Translated by Roger Veinus
DISTRIBUTED BY
University of Washington Press
SEATTLE* LONDON
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the Department of
Near Eastern Languages and Civilization
and the
Middle East Center
of the Henry M. Jackson
School of International Studies
University of Washington
Cover illustration: Arab Girl in a Doorway by Jean-Leon Gerome.
Courtesy of the Mathaf Gallery, 24 Motcomb Street, London SWIX
8JU. Now in a private collection.
Copyright © 1987 by the Department of Near Eastern Languages
and Civilization, University of Washington. Printed in the United
States of America.
Originally published in French as La fascination de I’lslam by Li-
brairie Frangois Maspero, Paris. Copyright ©1980 by Librairie Fran-
Qois Maspero.
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To Moise Twersky who committed suicide in Paris in
October 1940 to escape enslavement,
Who taught me as a boy to disagree with my own people
when in the wrong,
And not to let myself be enslaved by mass opinion,
even of the righters of wrong,
A lesson only too reluctantly and too slowly learnt.
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Contents
Introduction to the English Edition ix
Western Views of the Muslim World 3
The Middle Ages, 3; Toward a Less Polemical Image, 23;
Coexistence and Reconciliation, 31; From Coexistence to
Objectivity, 37; The Birth of Orientalism, 40; The En¬
lightenment, 45; The Nineteenth Century, 52; Challenges
to Eurocentrism, 71
Toward a New Approach to Arab and Islamic Studies 83
Traditional Orientalism in the Past, 85; The Present Cri¬
sis and Current Problems, 93; The Present State of the
Craft, 99; The Continuance of the Past Impetus, 99; The-
ologocentrism in Scholarship, 104; New Fields and Dis¬
ciplines, 107; Regional Influences in Islamic Studies, 109;
The Modalities of Future Progress, 111; Proposals for
Future Study, 115
Notes 130
Select Bibliography 145
Index 153
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