For Lust of Knowing (61 page)

28
. Rodinson in Gallagher (ed.),
Approaches to the History of the Middle East
, p. 119.

29
. On Jacques Berque, see his autobiography
Mémoires de deux rives
(Paris, 1989); Berque,
Andalousies
(Paris, 1981); Albert Hourani,
The Arab Cultural Scene. The Literary Review Supplement
(1982), pp. 7–11.

30
. André Miquel,
L'Orient d'une vie
(Paris, 1990).

31
. Malcom Yapp in the preface to the Wansbrough
Festschrift
issue,
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, 57 (1994), p. 1.

32
. Bernard Lewis provided a very brief account of his career as the ‘Introduction' to his volume of essays,
From Babel to Dragomans: Interpreting the Middle East
(London, 2004), pp. 1–11. A bibliography of his works prefaces C. E. Bosworth et al.,
Essays in Honor of Bernard Lewis: The Islamic World from Classical to Modern Times
(Princeton, NJ, 1989), pp. xii–xxv. See further on Lewis in Lockman,
Contending Visions
, pp. 130–32, 173–6, 190–92, 216–18.

33
. On Elie Kedourie, see Sylvia Kedourie (ed.),
Elie Kedourie CBE, FBA 1926–1992
(London, 1998); Moshe Gammer (ed.),
Political Thought and Political History: Studies in Memory of Elie Kedourie
(London, 2003); Nissim Rejwan,
Elie Kedourie and His Work: An Interim Appraisal
(Jerusalem, 1997); Yapp, ‘Two Great British Historians', pp. 45–9.

34
. On the clash between Kedourie and Gibb and Kedourie's subsequent attack on the values of Chatham House, see Kedourie,
The Chatham House Version and Other Middle Eastern Studies
, 3rd edition with an Introduction by David Pryce-Jones (London, 2004).

35
. Bellow,
To Jerusalem and Back
, p. 142.

36
. P. J. Vatikiotis,
Among Arabs and Jews: A Personal Experience (1936–1990)
(London, 1991).

37
. P. J. Vatikiotis (ed.),
Revolution in the Middle East, and Other Case
Studies; Proceedings of a Seminar
(London, 1972), pp. 8–9; cf. Edward Said,
Orientalism
(London, 1978), p. 313.

38
. On the Hayter Report, see Philips,
The School of Oriental and African Studies
, pp. 57–8; McLoughlin,
In a Sea of Knowledge
, pp. 147–9.

39
. Edward Ullendorff, ‘Alfred Felix Landon Beeston', in C. E. Bosworth (ed.),
A Century of British Orientalists 1902–2001
(Oxford, 2001), pp. 50–71; Michael Gilsenan, ‘A Personal Introduction', in Alan Jones (ed.),
Arabicus Felix: Luminosus Britannicus: Essays in Honour of A. F. L. Beeston
(Reading, 1991), pp. xv–xx.

40
. Personal knowledge.

41
. On Montgomery Watt, see Jabal Muhammad Buaben,
Image of the Prophet Muhammad in the West. A Study of Muir, Margoliouth and Watt
(Leicester, 1996).

42
. Patricia Crone,
Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
(Oxford, 1987).

43
. J. Wansbrough,
The Sectarian Milieu: Content and Composition of Islamic Salvation History
(Oxford, 1978), p. 25.

44
. On the life and works of Wansbrough, see
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, 57, pt. 1 (1994) (
In Honour of J. E. Wansbrough
); Andrew Rippin, ‘Literary Analysis of
Qur'an
,
Tafsir
and
Sira
: The Methodologies of John Wansbrough', in Richard C. Martin (ed.),
Approaches to Islam in Religious Studies
(Tucson, 1985), pp. 151–63; Herbert Berg, ‘The Implications of, and Opposition to, the Methods and Theories of John Wansbrough',
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
, 9 (1997), pp. 3–22;G. R. Hawting, ‘John Wansbrough, Islam, and Monotheism',
Method and Theory in the Study of Religion
, 9 (1997), pp. 23–38. See also the second edition of Wansbrough's
Quranic Studies
(New York, 2004), which has a foreword, annotations and a decidedly necessary glossary by Andrew Rippin. The short story ‘Let Not the Lord Speak' was published in
Encounter
, 54, pt. 5 (1980), pp. 3–7.

45
. Humphreys,
Islamic History
, p. 84.

46
. Yehuda D. Nevo and Judith Koren,
Crossroads to Islam: The Origins of the Arab Religion and the Arab State
(New York, 2004). See also the review of this book by Chase Robinson in the
Times Literary Supplement
, 28January 2005, p. 7.

47
. On Israeli scholarship in general, see articles by Kramer and Lazarus Yafeh in Kramer (ed.),
The Jewish Discovery of Islam
.

48
. On Ayalon, see Reuven Amitai, ‘David Ayalon, 1914–1998',
Mamluk Studies Review
, 3 (1999), pp. 1–10; Robert Irwin, ‘Under Western Eyes: A History of Mamluk Studies',
Mamluk Studies Review
, 4 (2000), pp. 37–9; Humphreys,
Islamic History
, pp. 181, 207.

49
. On Ashtor, see Irwin, ‘Under Western Eyes', pp. 35–7; Humphreys,
Islamic History
, pp. 269, 303–4; Kramer,
The Jewish Discovery of Islam
, p. 31;
Masashi Haneda and Toru Miura,
Islamic Urban Studies: Historical Review and Perspectives
(New York, 1994).

50
. Some of Emmanuel Sivan's articles are included in Sivan,
Interpretations of Islam, Past and Present
(Princeton, NJ, 1985). See also Sivan,
Radical Islam: Medieval Theology and Modern Politics
(New Haven, 1985) and Sivan, ‘Islamic Radicalism: Sunni and Shi‘ite', in Sivan and Menachem Friedman (eds),
Religious Radicalism and Politics in the Middle East
(New York, 1990), pp. 39–75.

51
. See note 11.

52
. On Paul Kraus, see Joel L. Kraemer, ‘The Death of an Orientalist: Paul Kraus from Prague to Cairo', in Kramer (ed.),
The Jewish Discovery
, pp. 181–223; Rodinson,
Entre Islam et Occident
, pp. 148–51.

53
. On Stern, see John Wansbrough's obituary of him in
Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies
, 33 (1970), pp. 599–602 and that by Walzer in
Israel Oriental Studies
, 2 (1972), pp. 1–14; Shulamit Sela, ‘The Interaction of Judaic and Islamic Studies in the Scholarship of S. M. Stern', in Kramer (ed.),
The Jewish Discovery
, pp. 261–71; Hourani, in Gallagher (ed.),
Approaches to the History of the Middle East
, p. 35.

54
. Annemarie Schimmel,
Morgenland und Abendland: Mein west–östliches Leben
(Munich, 2002); Shusha Guppy's obituary of Schimmel appeared in the
Independent
, 30 January 2003. The anonymous
Times
obituary appeared on 6February 2003. See also the obituary by Burzine Waghmar in
Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society
, 3rd series, vol. 13 (2003), pp. 377–9.

55
. Stephan Conermann, ‘Ulrich Haarmann, 1942–1999',
Mamluk Studies Review
, 4 (2000), pp. 1–25 (including bibliography); Irwin, ‘Under Western Eyes', p. 41.

56
. On post-war developments in German Orientalism, see Ulrich Haarmann, ‘L'Orientalisme allemand', in
MARS Le Monde Arabe dans la Recherche Scientifique
, no. 4 (1994), pp. 69–78; Baber Johansen, ‘Politics, Paradigms and the Progress of Oriental Studies: The German Oriental Society (Deutsche Morgenländische Gesellschaft) 1845–1989' in MARS, no. 4 (1994), pp. 79–94.

1
. Edward Said,
Out of Place
(London, 1999). He also features as a naughty boy in his sister's autobiography: see Jean Said Makdisi,
Teta, Mother and Me
(London, 1994), pp. 49–51. Said's ‘Between Two Worlds', which appeared in the
London Review of Books
, 7 May 1998, pp. 3–7 and ‘On Writing a Memoir' in the
London Review of Books
, 29 April 1999, pp. 8–11, both deal with thoughts arising from writing his autobiography. Gary Lockman provides a
brief account of Said's life and works in
Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
(Cambridge, 2004), pp. 182–214. See also the discussion of Said's
Orientalism
and the responses it provoked in A. L. MacFie,
Orientalism
(London, 2002).

2
. Said,
Out of Place
, p. 187.

3
. Edward Said, ‘Literary Theory at the Crossroads of Public Life' in Said,
Power, Politics and Culture: Interviews with Edward Said
, edited by Gaury Viswanathan (New York, 2001), p. 79. See also Said, ‘Vico on the Discipline of Bodies and Texts', in Said,
Reflections on Exile and Other Essays
(Cambridge, Mass., 2002), pp. 83–92.

4
. Edward Said,
Beginnings: Intention and Method
(London, 1975), p. 81.

5
. John Allen Paulos,
Once Upon a Number: The Wider Mathematical Logic of Number
(New York,
c.
1998), p. 28.

6
. Edward Said,
Orientalism
(London, 1978), p. 71.

7
. Bernard Lewis, ‘The Question of Orientalism',
New York Review of Books
, 24 June 1982, p. 53. ‘The Question of Orientalism' was reprinted in Lewis,
Islam and the West
(London, 1993), pp. 99–118. Said replied to Lewis's review and Lewis dealt with Said's attempted rebuttal in the
New York Review of Books
on 12 August 1982. In addition, ‘The Question of Orientalism' and various other documents relating to the controversy between Said and Lewis are reprinted in A. L. Macfie,
Orientalism: A Reader
(Edinburgh, 2000).

8
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 160 and cf. pp. 95 and 208 where it becomes clear that Said has created an imaginary composite Orientalist from the Swiss historian JacobBurkhardt (1818–97) with John Lewis Burkhardt (1784–1817), the explorer of the Middle East. The latter's
Arabic Proverbs
was published in 1837.

9
. Shelley Walia,
Edward Said and the Writing of History
(Cambridge, 2001), p. 8.

10
. Edward Said, ‘Orientalism Reconsidered', in Said,
Reflections on Exile
, p. 199. ‘Orientalism Reconsidered' was first previously published in Francis Barker et al. (eds),
Europe and Its Others
, vol. 1 (Colchester, Essex, 1985), pp. 14–27. It is also included in Macfie,
Orientalism: A Reader
.

11
. Robert Bolt,
Three Plays
(London, 1967), p. 147.

12
. Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm, ‘Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse',
Khamsin
, 8 (1981), p. 6.

13
. Said,
Orientalism
, pp. 62–3.

14
. Ibid., p. 68.

15
. Ibid., p. 210.

16
. Ibid., p. 19.

17
. Alan Sokal and Jean Bricmont,
Intellectual Impostures
(London, 2003), p. 179. (The book was first published in Paris in 1997as
Impostures intellectuelles
.)

18
. Ibid., p. 176.

19
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 23.

20
. Ibid., p. 94.

21
. The key works of Michel Foucault include
Folie et déraison. Historie de la folie à l'âge classique
(Paris, 1961);
Les Mots et les choses
(Paris, 1966);
L'Archéologie du savoir
(Paris, 1969);
L'Ordre du discours
(Paris, 1971);
Histoire de la sexualité
, 3 vols (Paris, 1976–84). All have been translated into English.

22
. Antonio Gramsci,
Selections from the Prison Notebooks
(London, 1971), p. 447.

23
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 204.

24
. Ibid., p. 104.

25
. Said,
Power, Politics and Culture
, p. 381.

26
. Said,
Orientalism
, ‘Afterword', pp. 346–7; cf. Said, ‘Diary',
London Review of Books
, 17 April 2002, p. 39.

27
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 98.

28
. Edward Said,
After the Last Sky: Palestinian Lives
(New York, 1986), p. 152.

29
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 99.

30
. Ibid., p. 127.

31
. Ibid., p. 63. For the various ways Said traduced Lane, see John Rodenbeck, ‘Edward Said and Edward William Lane', in Paul and Janet Starkey (eds),
Travellers in Egypt
(London, 1998), pp. 233–43.

32
. Said's main discussion of Marx is in pp. 153–6of
Orientalism
. For attacks on Said's misrepresentation of Marx, see in particular Al-‘Azm, ‘Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse', pp. 5–26, and Aijaz Ahmad, ‘Between Orientalism and Historicism',
Studies in History
, 7 (1991), pp. 135–63. Both are reproduced in Macfie,
An Orientalist Reader
. See also Aijaz Ahmad's ‘
Orientalism
and After: Ambivalence and Metropolitan Location in the Work of Edward Said', in Ahmad,
In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures
(London, 1992), in which Ahmad suggests, among other things, that Marx's position on rural Indians was not significantly different from his position on rural Germans.

33
. Al-‘Azm, ‘Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse', p. 15.

34
. Said,
Orientalism
, p. 224.

35
. Said, ‘Orientalism, an Afterword',
Raritan
, 14 (1995), p. 40. This article was subsequently appended to later editions of
Orientalism
.