Table of Contents

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







Index

About the Author

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).