-Dabashi has written an interesting book that sociologists of culture would find useful. . . . Dabashi's volume is a solid guide . . . and since the United States and Europe are clearly going to be studying and interacting with Muslim cultures for the foreseeable future, a book like his provides encouraging illumination.-
--Contemporary Sociology
-Hamid Dabashi belongs to a marvelous tradition of poetic thinkers, whose deep insights are crafted in magnificent poetic prose, thus providing his readers with the wine of literary pleasure along with rich food for thought.-
--Gilbert Achcar, University of London
-In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and politically trenchant book and as such, it will interest everyone concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a wide range of fields.-
--Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University
-Dabashi is learned, poetic, ranging from philosophy to film, every word written with a commitment to the possibility of a just world.-
--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Dabashi has written an interesting book that sociologists of culture would find useful. . . . Dabashi's volume is a solid guide . . . and since the United States and Europe are clearly going to be studying and interacting with Muslim cultures for the foreseeable future, a book like his provides encouraging illumination."
--Contemporary Sociology
"Hamid Dabashi belongs to a marvelous tradition of poetic thinkers, whose deep insights are crafted in magnificent poetic prose, thus providing his readers with the wine of literary pleasure along with rich food for thought."
--Gilbert Achcar, University of London
"In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and politically trenchant book and as such, it will interest everyone concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a wide range of fields."
--Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University
"Dabashi is learned, poetic, ranging from philosophy to film, every word written with a commitment to the possibility of a just world."
--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University
"Dabashi has written an interesting book that sociologists of culture would find useful. . . . Dabashi's volume is a solid guide . . . and since the United States and Europe are clearly going to be studying and interacting with Muslim cultures for the foreseeable future, a book like his provides encouraging illumination."
--Contemporary Sociology
"Hamid Dabashi belongs to a marvelous tradition of poetic thinkers, whose deep insights are crafted in magnificent poetic prose, thus providing his readers with the wine of literary pleasure along with rich food for thought."
--Gilbert Achcar, University of London
"In this fascinating and prodigious work, Hamid Dabashi offers a compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of Orientalism and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes of knowledge production about Islam and the Middle East. . . . It is a conceptually and intellectually elegant, subtle and politically trenchant book and as such, it will interest everyone concerned with the contemporary processes of global politics in a wide range of fields."
--Meyda Yegenoglu, Middle East Technical University
"Dabashi is learned, poetic, ranging from philosophy to film, every word written with a commitment to the possibility of a just world."
--Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, Columbia University