Orientalism and Islam :
Curtis, Michael, 1923-
Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and index.
What's past is prologue -- European views of Islam and their correlation with Oriental despotism -- Observant travelers -- Political thinkers and the Orient -- The Oriental despotic universe of Montesquieu -- Edmund Burke and despotism in India -- Alexis de Tocqueville and colonization -- James Mill and John Stuart Mill : despotism in India -- Karl Marx : the Asiatic mode of production and Oriental despotism -- Max Weber : patrimonialism as a political type.
9780521767255
2008040759
Dictatorship--Islamic countries.
Islam and politics.
Asiatic mode of production.
Social scientists--Attitudes--History.--Europe
Public opinion--History.--Europe
Political science--History.--Europe
Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, European.
JC381 / .C978 2009
Orientalism and Islam : European thinkers on Oriental despotism in the Middle East and India / Michael Curtis. - Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2009. - ix, 382 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 353-365) and index.
What's past is prologue -- European views of Islam and their correlation with Oriental despotism -- Observant travelers -- Political thinkers and the Orient -- The Oriental despotic universe of Montesquieu -- Edmund Burke and despotism in India -- Alexis de Tocqueville and colonization -- James Mill and John Stuart Mill : despotism in India -- Karl Marx : the Asiatic mode of production and Oriental despotism -- Max Weber : patrimonialism as a political type.
9780521767255
2008040759
Dictatorship--Islamic countries.
Islam and politics.
Asiatic mode of production.
Social scientists--Attitudes--History.--Europe
Public opinion--History.--Europe
Political science--History.--Europe
Islamic countries--Foreign public opinion, European.
JC381 / .C978 2009