The muslim reception of european orientalism : reversing the gaze / edited by Susannah Heschel and Umar Ryad.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-250) and index.

On Cooks and Crooks : Ahmad Faris al-Shidyaq and the Orientalists in England and France (1840s-1850s) / Tarek el-Ariss -- Experiencing Orientalism : Amin al-Madani and the Sixth Oriental Congress, Leiden, 1883 / Kathryn Anne Schwartz -- The Reception of the Brill Encyclopedia of Islam : An Egyptian Debate on the Credibility of Orientalism / Said F. Hassen and Abdallah Omran -- Arabic Literature for the Colonizer and the Colonized : Ignaz Goldziher and Hungary's Eastern Politics 1878-1918 / Katalin Rac -- Islamic Modernism between Colonialism and Orientalism : Al-Manar's Intellectual Circles and Aligarh's Mohammedan Anglo-Oriental College, 1898-1914 / Roy Bar-Sadeh -- The Frustrating Authority of Mr. Wells : Islam and the Politics of Orientalism in Republican China / Aaron Glasserman -- Orientalist Triangulations : Jewish Scholarship on Islam as a Response to Christian Europe / Susannah Heschel -- "Dieses wirklich westostlichen Mannes" : The German-Jewish Orientalist Josef Horovitz in Germany, India, and Palestine / Ruchama Johnston-Bloom -- Scholarship on Islamic Archaeology Between Zionism and Arab Nationalist Movements / Mostafa Hussein -- A Muslim Convert to Christianity as an Orientalist in Europe : The Case of the Moroccan Franciscan Jean-Mohammed Abdeljalil / Mehdi Sajid.

Edward Said's Orientalism, now more than fifty years old, has to be one of the most frequently cited books among academics in a wide range of disciplines, and the most frequently assigned book to undergraduates at colleges. One question less raised (or less has been done about the question) is How were the Orientalist writings of European scholars of Islam received among their Muslim contemporaries? An international team of contributors rectify this oversight in this volume.