LEADER 04756nam 2200733Ia 450 001 9910825951103321 005 20240418023109.0 010 $a1-283-89637-0 010 $a0-8122-0526-X 024 7 $a10.9783/9780812205268 035 $a(CKB)3170000000046701 035 $a(OCoLC)794925499 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebrary10576086 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000605860 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11393570 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000605860 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10580774 035 $a(PQKB)10292864 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse8383 035 $a(DE-B1597)449366 035 $a(OCoLC)979580922 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780812205268 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3441646 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10576086 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL420887 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3441646 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000046701 100 $a20091118d2010 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcn||||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aEuropean modernity and the Arab Mediterranean $etoward a new philology and a counter-orientalism /$fKarla Mallette 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aPhiladelphia $cUniversity of Pennsylvania Press$dc2010 215 $a1 online resource (321 p.) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 0 $a0-8122-4241-6 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tChapter 1. Scheherazade among the Philologists (Paris, 1704) --$tChapter 2. Metempsychosis: Dante, Petrarch, and the Arab Middle Ages --$tChapter 3. I nostri Saracini: Writing the History of the Arabs of Sicily --$tChapter 4. The Ramparts of Europe: The Invention of the Maltese Language --$tChapter 5. The Life and Times of Enrico Cerulli --$tChapter 6. Amalgams: Emilio García Gómez (s. xx), Alvarus (s. ix), and Philology after the Nation --$tChapter 7. Scheherazade at Home (Baghdad, a.d. 803; London and Hollywood, 1939) --$tNotes --$tBibliography --$tIndex --$tAcknowledgments 330 $aOver the past decade, scholars have vigorously reconsidered the history of Orientalism, and though Edward Said's hugely influential work remains a touchstone of the discussion, Karla Mallette notes, it can no longer be taken as the final word on Western perceptions of the Islamic East. The French and British Orientalisms that Said studied in particular were shaped by the French and British colonial projects in Muslim regions; nations that did not have such investments in the Middle East generated significantly different perceptions of Islamic and Arabic culture. European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean examines Orientalist philological scholarship of southern Europe produced between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. In Italy, Spain, and Malta, Mallette argues, a regional history of Arab occupation during the Middle Ages gave scholars a focus different from that of their northern European colleagues; in studying the Arab world, they were not so much looking on a distant and radically different history as seeking to reconstruct the past of their own nations. She demonstrates that in specific instances, Orientalists wrote their nations' Arab history as the origin of modern national identity, depicting Islamic thought not as exterior to European modernity but rather as formative of and central to it. Joining comparative insights to the analytic strategies and historical genius of philology, Mallette ranges from the complex manuscript history of the Thousand and One Nights to the invention of the Maltese language and Spanish scholarship on Dante and Islam. Throughout, she reveals the profound influences Arab and Islamic traditions have had on the development of modern European culture. European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean is an engaging study that sheds new light on the history of Orientalism, the future of philology, and the postcolonial Middle Ages. 606 $aArabic philology$xHistory$y19th century 606 $aArabic philology$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aIslamic civilization 607 $aEurope$xCivilization$xArab influences 610 $aCultural Studies. 610 $aEuropean History. 610 $aHistory. 610 $aLiterature. 610 $aMedieval and Renaissance Studies. 610 $aWorld History. 615 0$aArabic philology$xHistory 615 0$aArabic philology$xHistory 615 0$aIslamic civilization. 676 $a492.709 700 $aMallette$b Karla$01620411 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910825951103321 996 $aEuropean modernity and the Arab Mediterranean$94042663 997 $aUNINA