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Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism - Selected Eastern Writings (Paperback)
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Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism - Selected Eastern Writings (Paperback)
Series: Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
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Though known to specialists, Comte de Gobineau's vital if
idiosyncratic contribution to Orientalism has only been accessible
to the English reader through secondary sources. Especially
important for its portrayal of an esoteric Sufi sect like the Ahl-i
Haqq, and its vivid narrative of the Babi episode in Persia,
Gobineau's work impacted significantly on European intelligentsia,
including Ernest Renan, Matthew Arnold, Lord Curzon, and the
Orientalist Edward Granville Browne. Daniel O'Donoghue's brilliant
translation now makes available sizeable extracts from Gobineau's
two most important writings on the East: Three Years in Asia and
Religions and Philosophies of Central Asia. Geoffrey Nash's
comprehensive introduction and notes contextualise Gobineau's work
in the light of contemporary scholarship, as well as assessing its
impact on nineteenth century Orientalists and modern Iranians, and
its relevance to debates around Islam and modernity that are still
alive today.
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