For Lust of Knowing
The Orientalists and their enemies

Year Published:  2006
Resource Type:  Book
Cx Number:  CX9580

A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."

Subject Headings

• Academic Fads & Fashions
• Academics
• Arab World
• Colonialism
• Cultural Studies
• Eurocentrism
• History
• History/Arab
• Intellectuals
• Islamic Studies
• Middle East
• Middle East Studies
• Orientalism
• Post-Modernism
• Said, Edward