For Lust of Knowing (70 page)

Reig, Daniel,
146

Reiske, Johann Jacob,
116
,
127–
8,
143
,
291

Relation d'un Voyage fait au Levant
(Thévenot),
110

religion

in culture,
294

totemisticstage,
184

Rémusat, Jean Pierre Abel,
125
,
150

Renaissance, European,
54

Renaissance orientale, La
(Schwab),
125
,
282

Renan, Ernest,
166–
70,
172
,
224
,
255
,
294
,
311

at Collège de France,
168

on German Orientalism,
287

de Goeje on,
191
,
269

Goldziger on,
167
,
169
,
194
,
291

languages,
166
,
167
,
169
,
175

personal appearance,
167–
8

on race,
174

racism,
166
,
168
,
170
,
173
,
193–
4,
295–
6

Said on,
166
,
282
,
287
,
290
,
295

Republic of Fear, The
(al-Khalil),
293

République marchande de la Mecque vers l'an 600 de notre ère, La
(Lammens),
202

Res Ipsa Loquitur: History and Mimesis
(Wansbrough),
269

Revue des Deux Mondes
,
169

Rhinoceros
(Ionesco),
313

Rhodes, Turks invade (1522),
60

Richard, Francis,
105

Ricoldo da Monte Croce,
18
,
52

knowledge of Islam,
38–
9,
45–
6,
328

Ring of the Dove
(Ibn Hazm),
40

Risala
(al-Kindi),
24
,
26–
7

Road to Mecca
(Asad),
314

Robert of Ketton,
26–
8,
71
,
121

Robinson Crusoe
(Defoe),
97
,
119

Rodinson, Maxime,
137
,
197
,
202
,
255
,
267
,
283
,
298

anti-colonialism,
228
,
255

and Massignon,
225
,
291

Roemer, Hans Robert,
274

Roman, Provincial and Islamic Law
(Crone),
249–
50

Roman Empire, Arabs in,
17–
18

Romania, Turks invade,
60

Romanticmovement,
159

Rome, as centre of Islamic study,
74

Römische Päpste im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert, Die
(Ranke),
155

Romulus, calendar,
78

‘Roots of the Muslim Rage, The' (Lewis),
262

Rosen, Baron Viktor Romanovich,
153
,
158
,
217
,
229
,
230

Rosenberg, Alfred,
170
,
234

Rosenthal, Franz,
149
,
236
,
245
,
248–
9

Rosicrucians, Oriental origins,
151

Ross, Sir Edward Denison,
206
,
212
,
217–
18,
296

Royal AsiaticSociety,
124
,
146
,
147
,
212
,
275

Journal,
146
,
147
,
211

Royal Court of Moneys, Paris,
142
,
145

Royalism, and interest in Arabic,
92
,
94

Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
(FitzGerald),
162

Rückert, Friedrich,
125
,
152
,
198
,
213

Ruines, Les, ou meditations sur les revolutions des empires
(Volney),
135

Russell, Alexander,
121
–2,
164

Russell, Bertrand,
29

Russell, Patrick,
121
–2

Russia

Asian empire,
130
,
192
,
229

expansion,
158

imperialism,
113

Orientalism,
129
–30,
287

18th century,
113

19th century,
150
,
157
–8,
158

Soviet,
229
–33,
324

Tabriz, atrocities,
206

universities, German dominance,
157
,
158

Ryan, Sir Andrew,
206

Ryle, Gilbert,
303

Sacy,
see
Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac

al-Safadi,
312

Safavid empire,
60
,
70

Said, Edward,
3
–4,
5
,
277
–9,
324
,
see also Orientalism
(Said)

on Bonaparte's interpreters,
137

and canonical tradition,
289

at Columbia,
250
,
279

on Council of Vienne,
48

debate with Lewis,
302
–3

and discourse,
3
,
289

education,
278
–9

on European frontier,
10

Hourani on,
254

and Indo-Aryan languages,
124

influences on,
279–
80,
282
,
289
,
325

and Massignon,
256

and music,
277
,
308

and
Orientalism,
3
,
281

on Oxbridge,
178

rejects terrorism,
306

Rodinson on,
256–
7

Sardar on,
328

secular humanism,
294
,
300

youth,
278–
9,
307

Said ib Bitriq Eutychius, Patriarch of Alexandria,
95

Sailibi, Kamal,
292

St Andrews university,
178
,
179

St Joseph university, Beirut,
201

St Petersburg

AsiaticMuseum,
157–
8

Oriental Institute,
157

Oriental manuscripts,
130

St Sabas, Monastery,
23

Saint-Sulpice, Seminary,
166

Saladin, Ayyubid Sultan,
42
,
43
,
213
,
241
,
242

Saladin and the Fall of the Kingdom of Jerusalem
(Lane-Poole),
213

Salamanca university, teaching of

Arabic,
47–
8

Salamis, battle (480
BC
),
11

Sale, George,
99
,
100
,
105
,
106
,
118
,
120–
21

Salisbury, Edward Eldbridge,
213–
14

Sanskrit culture,
156–
7

Sanskrit language,
124
,
161
,
162

Sanskrit studies,
113
,
125

German domination,
113
,
148
,
156
,
287
,
293

grammars,
156

Saracens,
20
,
213

Sardar, Ziauddin,
52
,
300
,
326–
8

Sarre, Friedrich,
215

Sartre, Jean-Paul,
228

Sasanian Persians,
19
,
171
,
172

Satires
(Juvenal),
18

Sauvaget, Jean,
215
,
216

Savile, Sir Henry,
76
,
85
,
91–
2

Scaliger, Joseph Justus,
71
,
73
,
76–
9,
102

and chronology,
77–
8

on language,
77

at Leiden,
79
,
101

and Postel,
77
,
78

Scaliger, Julius Caesar,
76

Scarborough Committee (1944),
238
,
265

Schacht, Joseph,
245
,
249–
50,
269
,
319
,
322

and
Encyclopaedia of Islam,
190
,
241

Said and,
250

Schaeder, Hans Heinrich,
235–
6,
248
,
273
,
274
,
329–
30

Schefer, Charles,
217

Schimmel, Annemarie,
235
,
236
,
273–
4

Schlegel, August Wilhelm,
125
,
156
,
198

Schlegel, Friedrich von,
156
,
198
,
293

School of Oriental Studies, Jerusalem,
271

School of Oriental Studies (later Oriental and African Studies), London University (SOAS),
240
,
258
,
268
,
319

origins,
217–
19

staff,
217
,
218–
19,
241
,
244
,
260
,
264
,
265

student radicalization,
261

Schultens, Albert,
104
,
116
,
126–
7

Schwab, Raymond,
125
,
170
,
282

science, Islamic,
28–
30,
55

Scot, Michael,
35

Scott, Sir Walter,
8
,
213

Sea of Virtues,
40

‘Second Critique of English-speaking Orientalists' (Tibawi),
319–
20

Second World War (1939–45), British Orientalism in,
237–
9

Secreta Secretorum,
31–
2

Sectarian Milieu: Content and Composition of Islamic Salvation History
(Wansbrough),
269

Selden, John,
90
,
95

Semiticlanguages,
224

Sentences
('Ali),
84

September
11
attacks, 2001,
308

Sergius,
20

Serjeant, R. B.,
238
,
321–
2

Seven Pillars of Wisdom
(Lawrence),
217
,
280

Seventh Seal
(film),
313

Seven Years' War (1756–63),
112

Severus, Emperor of Rome,
18

Seymour, M. C.,
50–
51

Shafi'ite law,
249

Shahnama
(Firdawsi),
123

Shalhoub, Michael (Omar Sharif,
pseud
.),
278

Shariati, ‘Ali,
314

Sharif, Omar
(pseud.)
,
278

Shelley, P. B.,
133

Shi'ism,
172
,
205
,
242

Isma'ili,
227
,
256
,
259

political importance,
260

prejudice against,
223–
4

Shu'ubiyya
movement,
194
,
311

Siger of Brabant,
35
,
42

Silvestre de Sacy, Antoine Isaac,
7
,
103
,
128
,
141–
6,
149
,
152
,
172
,
179
,
198
,
213
,
283

on
Arabian Nights,
156

and colloquial Arabic,
135–
6,
137
,
141

conspiracy theories,
145
,
151

influence,
148
,
150
,
153
,
157
,
159
,
192

languages,
135
,
142

Renan and,
166

Said on,
282
,
295

Sinai Desert,
281

Sinai Peninsula, topographical survey,
180–
81

Sivan, Emmanuel,
272

Six Day War (1967),
281

Slane, Baron de,
see
McGuckin, William, Baron de Slane

Sluglett, Peter,
245

Smith, Wilfred Cantwell,
318
,
323

Smith, William Robertson,
169
,
182–
5,
186
,
193
,
198
,
218

at Cambridge,
183–
4,
209

and
Encyclopaedia Biblica,
185
,
189–
90

and
Encyclopaedia Britannica
,
183

racism,
173

SOAS,
see
School of Oriental Studies (later Oriental and African Studies), London University

Société Asiatique,
124
,
142
,
146

Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge,
164

Socinian sect,
86

Soirées de Saint-Petersbourg
(Maistre),
220

Sokal, Alan,
288
,
289

Sourdel, Dominique,
215

Sourdel-Thoumine, Janine,
215

Southern, Richard,
20
,
47
,
48
,
327–
8

Southey, Robert,
124

Soviet Union,
see also
Russia