St Antony's Series: Orientalism, Occidentalism and Historiography

Tavakoli-Targhi, M.

Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi offers a corrective to recent works on Orientalism that focus solely on European scholarly productions without exploring the significance of native scholars and vernacular scholarship to the making of Oriental studies. He brings to light a wealth of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Indo-Persian texts, made 'homeless' by subsequent nationalist histories and shows how they relate to Indo-Iranian modernity. In doing so, he argues for a radical rewriting of Iranian history with profound implications for Islamic debates on gender.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2001-10-10

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9780333949221

DOI: 10.1057/9781403918413

Dimensions: 216cm x140cm

Pages: 216