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Early orientalism : imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power
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Early orientalism : imagined Islam and the notion of sublime power

Ivan Davidson Kalmar

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The obscene father: Allah, Jehovah, and the Oriental despot
Orientalism: what has and what has not been said
Proto-orientalism: ancient and Medieval views of the East
The abduction from Asia: the fall of Constantinople and the beginning of modern Orientalism
The Turks of Prague: the mundane and the sublime
Rembrandt's Orient: where earth met heaven
The sublime East: the soft Orientalism of Bishop Lowth
The sublime is not enough: the hard orientalism of G.F.W. Hegel
Letter and spirit
The lord's command is greater than the lord
The all-seeing eye
The bad shepherd: pastoral government and its Oriental discontents
Sex in paradise: what suicide fighters die for
Epilogue on the value of submission: a eulogy for soft Orientalism.

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