Imagining the Arab other : how Arabs and non-Arabs view each other
& Nbsp; In this innovative study, Professor Tahar Labib seeks to understand how the 'Other' is viewed in Arab culture, and vice versa. Imagining The Arab Other examines how Turks, Europeans, Christians and Iranians have been represented in the arts, opinions and cultures of the Arab world. Conversely, it also explores the intellectual representation of 'The Arab' in other cultures. It demonstrates the central role of the Catholic Church in ascribing to the Arab peoples a set of characteristics associated with the 'Other'. Labib places this survey in the context of theoretical debates, started by Edward Said's 'Orientalism', on the construction of'Other'. With its diversity of perspectives, Imagining The Arab Other offers a new way of understanding of identity and cultural difference in the Middle East, one which goes beyond the Orientalist / Occidentalist paradigm
eBook, English, 2008
I.B. Tauris ; In the United States and Canada distributed by Palgrave Macmillan, London, New York, NY, 2008
1 online resource (x, 356 pages)
9781435691414, 9781845113841, 9780857713421, 1435691415, 1845113845, 0857713426
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Part I. On the otherness question
The other as an historical invention / Jean Ferreux
Orientalism and occidentalism : invention of the other in anthropological discourse / Munzer A. Kilani
The other's image : the sociology of difference / Haidar Ibrahim Ali
The other, the self and the idea of citizenship / Pierre Paolo Donatti
Part II. Behind the borders : (1) the Arab view of the other
The other in Arab culture / Tahar Labib
The African in Arab culture : dynamics of inclusion and exclusion / Helmi Sharawi
The dialectics of the ego and the other : a study of Tahtawi's Takhlis Al Ebriz / Hassan Hanafi
The other's image in Maghrebi travel writings / Abdul Salam Heimer
Tunisia and the world : attitude of the young Tunisian to other countries / Michael Suleiman
Part III. Behind the borders : (2) the other's view of the Arab
The image of Arabs and Islam in French textbooks / Marilyn Nassr
The Catholic Church and Islam / Anzo Patchi
The others' image : real and false fears in Arab-European relations / Sigurd N. Skirpekk
Part IV. Across borders : the other of literature and arts
The other's image in Quinnel's The Mahdi / Abu Bakr Ahmed Bakadir
Arab and Turkish images of each other / Ibrahim Al Dakuki
Arab and Iranian images of each other / Talal Atrissi
Electronic reproduction, [Place of publication not identified], HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010