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.

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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.

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