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Ian Almond
Exposes and examines the west’s Orientalism and its construction of an Arab or Islamic ‘Other’. This work highlights the difficulty of ever speaking truly about the ‘Other’. It also examines…
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Demonstrates that in Europe, the heart of the west, Muslims and Christians were often comrades-in-arms, repeatedly forming alliances to wage war against their own faiths and peoples.
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This book examines a series of common features in the works of Derrida and the Sufism of Ibn ‘Arabi, considered to be one of the most influential figures in Islamic…
Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary?traditions outside…
This concise overview of the perception of Islam in eight of the most important German thinkers of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries allows a new and fascinating investigation of how…
Looking at a series of themes across three literatures (Mexico, Turkey and Bengal), the book examines hotels, melancholy, orientalism, femicide and the ghost story in a series of literary traditions…
A critical examination of the famous South Asian writer Nirad C. Chaudhuri (1897-1999), a notorious Anglophile and defender of empire. Ian Almond analyses Chaudhuri from the perspectives of Islam, the…
