Foreword / FrancŒois Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin -- Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History / FrancŒois Pouillon -- The Real Discourses of Orientalism / Robert Irwin -- The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies on Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient / Leon Buskens and Baudouin Dupret -- The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exotism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals / Zakaria Rhani -- Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History / Jessica M. Marglin -- "It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples' Ways of Life" / Olivier Herrenschmidt -- The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship / Edhem Eldem -- "Go West": Variations on Kemalist Orientalism / Emmanuel Szurek -- Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin / Stephane A. Dudoignon -- Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism / Elisabeth Alles -- A Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869-2010): A Disorientated Heritage? / Jean-Gabriel Leturcq -- A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amin as a Reader of Edward Lane / Emmanuelle Perrin -- Mohamed Galal (1906-1943), a Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya. Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge / Mouldi Lahmar -- Arab reception of the Arabian nights: between contemptuous dismissal and recognition / Sylvette Larzul -- The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet / Alain de Pommereau -- Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles / Claire Nicholas -- Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? / Mercedes Volait -- Conclusion: After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals / Jean-Claude Vatin -- Index.
Summary:
Contributors offer an exciting new landscape in which to situate research on cultures and societies of the non-European world, with a road-map that leads us beyond the restrictive dichotomy of Occident/Orient.
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