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<P>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 century, to the "Islamist" terrorist. In <I>Idols in the East</I>, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslims—the irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamist—and about how these stereotypes developed over time. </P><P><I>Idols in the East</I> contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieval period, Akbari examines a broad range of texts including encyclopedias, maps, medical and astronomical treatises, chansons de geste, romances, and allegories to paint an unusually diverse portrait of medieval culture. Among the texts she considers are <I>The Book of John Mandeville</I>, <I>The Song of Roland</I>, <I>Parzival</I>, and Dante's <I>Divine Comedy</I>. From them she reveals how medieval writers and readers understood and explained the

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Author

Akbari, Suzanne Conklin

Publisher

Cornell University Press

Published

2017

Language

EN

ISBN

9780801448072

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Islam, Literary Criticism