Acknowledgements
List of Illustrations
Note on Contributors
1 An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism
(Theories and Praxis)
Tugrul Keskin
2 At the Threshold of Iranian Studies
Babak Elahi
3 A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image
Lineage
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
4 Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the
Study of Arabic
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Francesco L. Sinatora
5 Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A
Battlefield of Orientalism
Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel
6 The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and
Democracy in the Middle East
Dunya D. Cakir
7 The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in
Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland
Mahmoud Arghavan
8 Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism
at Work in Turkish Politics
Merve Kavakci
9 (Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case
Study of Contemporary Iranian Art
Staci Gem Scheiwiller
10 Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman
Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel
Beyazit H. Akman
11 The Jasmine in the Fist: The Otpor Model in the Arab Spring and
Beyond
Emanuela C. Del Re
12 Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of
Knowledge Production on Post-revolutionary Iran
Seyed Mohammd Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari
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Tugrul Keskin, Ph.D. (2009), Virginia Tech, is an Associate Professor at Shanghai University. He is the founder and moderator of the Sociology of Islam listserve, the founder and editor of the journal Sociology of Islam (Brill) and the Middle East and North Africa regional editor for the journal Critical Sociology (Sage).
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