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2020
The introduction presents an overview of the ways that theories and representations of decadence and decay have functioned in the relationship between France and the Arab world since the nineteenth century. Bringing the ideas of Walter Benjamin to bear on the Arab nahda, Islamic reformism, and Orientalist philology, it elaborates a theory of historical
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The introduction presents an overview of the ways that theories and representations of decadence and decay have functioned in the relationship between France and the Arab world since the nineteenth century. Bringing the ideas of Walter Benjamin to bear on the Arab nahda, Islamic reformism, and Orientalist philology, it elaborates a theory of historical
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2021
The best accounts of Hindu religious beliefs and practices to reach Europe before 1800 came overwhelmingly from the pens of missionaries. There are several reasons why this was so. Their missionary task obviously motivated them to attempt to understand Hindu religion even if they ultimately rejected it as a false religion.
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The best accounts of Hindu religious beliefs and practices to reach Europe before 1800 came overwhelmingly from the pens of missionaries. There are several reasons why this was so. Their missionary task obviously motivated them to attempt to understand Hindu religion even if they ultimately rejected it as a false religion.
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Antiquity, 2004
Reviews three books on archaeology. "Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire," by Wendy M. K. Shaw; "Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesapotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe," by Frederick N.
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Reviews three books on archaeology. "Possessors and Possessed: Museums, Archaeology, and the Visualization of History in the Late Ottoman Empire," by Wendy M. K. Shaw; "Orientalism and Visual Culture: Imagining Mesapotamia in Nineteenth-Century Europe," by Frederick N.
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Russian Orientalistics (Vostokovedenie)
Iran and the CaucasusAbstract This article examines the history, current state and prospects of Oriental and African Studies (OAS) in modern Russia. It explains why there are several educational models of OAS at bachelor’s and master’s degree in Russia and describes the current situation where 22 Russian universities offering OAS programmes produce graduates with ...
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2013
As Arnaldo Momigliano noted soon after Moses Finley's death, Finley paid little attention to Jews or Judaism in his scholarship. This chapter explores this silence in two ways, first, biographically, by trying to determine what sort of Jewish background Finley had, and how much Jewish knowledge he is to have brought to his career as ancient historian ...
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As Arnaldo Momigliano noted soon after Moses Finley's death, Finley paid little attention to Jews or Judaism in his scholarship. This chapter explores this silence in two ways, first, biographically, by trying to determine what sort of Jewish background Finley had, and how much Jewish knowledge he is to have brought to his career as ancient historian ...
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