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Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient – A Critical Discourse (1872–1932)

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Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient – A Critical Discourse (1872–1932) explores a century-long intellectual debate from the Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic era, countering Western stereotypes of the East. Zeynep Çelik recontextualises Eurocentric postcolonial studies by highlighting the voices of Ottoman and Turkish intellectuals who critically engaged with European political and cultural narratives, challenging clichéd perceptions of the Orient. The book includes carefully selected primary texts that illuminate this vibrant discourse.
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This scholarly work is ideal for readers interested in Middle Eastern history, postcolonial studies, and the history of cross-cultural intellectual debates. It will particularly appeal to academics and students seeking a deeper understanding of Ottoman and Turkish perspectives on Western representations of the East.

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A century before the publication of Edward Said’s Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicised Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clichés about “the Orient.”

In Europe Knows Nothing about the Orient – A Critical Discourse (1872–1932), Zeynep Çelik recontextualises Eurocentric postcolonial studies, unearthing an important episode in modern Middle Eastern intellectual history and curating a selection of primary texts illustrating the debates.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9786057685353

Publisher: Koc University Press

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 06 August 2021

Country: Türkiye

Imprint: Koc University Press

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 166.0mm

Height: 239.0mm

Weight: 402g

Pages: 256

About the Author

Zeynep Çelik is distinguished professor emerita at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. She is the author of many books, most recently About Antiquities: Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire. Gregory Key is a lecturer in modern and Ottoman Turkish at SUNY Binghamton in New York. Aron Aji is director of the University of Iowa’s MFA in Literary Translation program. His most recent translation, of Bilge Karasu’s Long Day’s Evening, received an NEA Translation Fellowship and was shortlisted for the PEN Translation Prize.

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