The Muslim Reception of European Orientalism : Reversing the Gaze (Hardcover)

Introduction 1. Christian Theological Dimensions of German Orientalism (George Williamson) 2. The Philological Uncanny: Jewish Discoveries of Christianity and Islam (Susannah Heschel) 3. Moral Decay and the Superstitious Mind: Reflections on Islamic Modernism beyond Arabia (Travis Zadeh) 4. Transnational Orientalism: Henry Corbin in Iran (Matthijs van den Bos) 5. Between Colonialism, Orientalism and the Multifaceted Genealogies of Islamic Reformism: al-Manar and Aligarh (Roy Bar Sadeh) 6. The Prophet's Life: South Asian Contestations of European Biographies (Ayesha Jalal) 7. Judaism plus Proselytism, and Christianity minus the Teaching of St. Paul (Jeffrey Diamond) 8. "Dieses wirklich westostlichen Mannes": The German-Jewish Orientalist Josef Horovitz in Germany, India, and Palestine (Ruchama Johnston-Bloom) 9. Orientalism in the Mashriq (Tarek El-Ariss) 10. Muhammad Asad’s Conversion to Islam as Case-Study in Central-European Jewish Self-Fashioning (Abraham Rubin) 11. Leo Mayer's Encounter with Islamic Art and Archaeology in the Holy Land (Mostafa Hussein) 12. The Reception of Goldziher’s Contribution to Qur’anic Studies in the Arabic World (Samer Rashwani) 13. Arabic Literature for the Colonized and the Colonizer: A History of Ignaz Goldziher's textbook 'Short History of Arabic Literature (Katalin Rac) 14. Early European Orientalists in the Royal Academy of Language in Cairo (Umar Ryad)