Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450 by Suzanne Conklin Akbari

Idols in the East: European Representations of Islam and the Orient, 1100-1450

Suzanne Conklin Akbari

323 pages first pub 2009 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative slow-paced

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Representations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first cent...

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