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Hardback. New. New Book; Fast Shipping from UK; Not signed; Not First Edition; Based the author's Carlyle lectures, Useful Enemies explores the theme of Western ideas of Islam and the Ottoman empire across three centuries. ISBN 0198830130 9780198830139 [GB]

Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2019. Hardcover. New. 487 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches. 2019. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0198830130 9780198830139 [GB]

ISBN10: 0198830130, ISBN13: 9780198830139, [publisher: Oxford University Press, USA Jul 2019] Hardcover Neuware - From the fall of Constantinople in 1453 until the eighteenth century, many Western European writers viewed the Ottoman Empire with almost obsessive interest. Typically they reacted to it with fear and distrust; and such feelings were reinforced by the deep hostility of Western Christendom towards Islam. Yet there was also much curiosity about the social and political system on which the huge power of the sultans was based. In the sixteenth century, especially, when Ottoman territorial expansion was rapid and Ottoman institutions seemed particularly robust, there was even open admiration.In this path-breaking book Noel Malcolm ranges through these vital centuries of East-West interaction, studying all the ways in which thinkers in the West interpreted the Ottoman Empire as a political phenomenon - and Islam as a political religion. Useful Enemies shows how the concept of 'oriental despotism' began as an attempt to turn the tables on a very positive analysis of Ottoman state power, and how, as it developed, it interacted with Western debates about monarchy and government. Noel Malcolm also shows how a negative portrayal of Islam as a religion devised for political purposes was assimilated by radical writers, who extended the criticism to all religions, including Christianity itself.Examining the works of many famous thinkers (including ...
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Oxford Univ Pr, Date: 2019. Hardcover. New. 487 pages. 9.50x6.50x1.75 inches. 2019. Oxford Univ Pr ISBN 0198830130 9780198830139 [GB]

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Oxford University Press, Date: 2019. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,850grams, ISBN:9780198830139 2019. Oxford University Press ISBN 0198830130 9780198830139 [GB]

Oxford University Press 2019 Hard cover This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside. This book has hardback covers. Clean from markings. In good all round condition. Dust jacket in good condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 850grams, ISBN: 9780198830139.