| If you are building a basic library on the Orientalism debate, start with these nine books. Together they cover a quarter of a century of cut-and-thrust argument, from the big bang of Edward Said's book to the present-day swing back to an appreciation of Orientalism's achievements. | ||
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| Orientalism
by Edward W. Said $10.88 The ur-argument that Orientalism represents a nefarious nexus of knowledge and power. | Islam and the West
by Bernard Lewis $13.84 A collection of articles on Western approaches to Islam, including a famous rejoinder to Said. | Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Di...
by Robert Irwin $24.26 The ultimate Said antidote demolishes him via a sweeping survey of scholarly Orientalism. |
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| Ivory Towers on Sand: The Failure of Middle...
by Martin S. Kramer $16.96 Exposes the deleterious influence of Said's book on Mideast studies in America. | Contending Visions of the Middle East: The ...
by Zachary Lockman $22.75 An attempt to shore up the "progressive" critique of Orientalism against its continued erosion. | Islam in European Thought
by Albert Hourani $40.32 This collection of essays includes a judicious history of scholarly Orientalism by a grudging admirer. |
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| Europe and the Mystique of Islam
by Maxime Rodinson $33.00 The doyen of Islamic studies on the left still held the Orientalist tradition in high regard in this broad survey. | Orientalists: Western Artists in Arabia, th...
by Kristian Davies After two decades of attacks on Orientalist art, this book rises to the defense of the genre. | Orientalism: A Reader
by Alexander Lyon Macfie $22.50 A convenient collection of texts that together constitute the core of the Orientalism debate. |
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Orientalism: The Basics
