Introduction to the Paperback Edition Introduction: Knowledge and Power in a Time of Terror 1. On Exilic Intellectuals 2. Ignaz Goldziher and the Question Concerning Orientalism 3. I Am Not a Subalternist 4. The Creative Crisis of the Subject 5. Pilgrims' Progress: On Revolutionary Border-Crossing 6. Endosmosis: Knowledge without Agency, Empire without Hegemony 7. Towards a New Organicity Conclusion: Changing the Interlocutor Index
Hamid Dabashi is the Hagop Kevorkian Professor of Iranian Studies and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He is the author of, among other works, the acclaimed Authority in Islam: From the Rise of Muhammad to the Establishment of the Umayyads, in religion and philosophy.
-In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a
compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism
and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes
of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It
is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and
politically trenchant book and as such, it will nterest everyone
concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a
wide range of fields.- --Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical
University
"In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a
compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism
and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes
of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It
is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and
politically trenchant book and as such, it will nterest everyone
concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a
wide range of fields." --Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical
University
"In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a
compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism
and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes
of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It
is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and
politically trenchant book and as such, it will nterest everyone
concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a
wide range of fields." --Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical
University
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