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Contending Visions of the Middle EastThe History and Politics of Orientalism
Zachary Lockman’s book offers a broad survey of the development ofWestern knowledge about Islam and the region we today call the Mid-dle East. Beginning with ancient Greek and Roman conceptions of theworld, this book goes on to discuss European perceptions of Islam fromits emergence in the seventh century down to the present, with partic-ular attention to the age of European imperialism, the era of deepeningAmerican involvement in this region, and the aftermath of the Septem-ber 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Along the way Lockman explores howscholars and others in the West have studied and depicted Islam andthe Middle East, focusing on how East and West came to be importantways of dividing up the world and how power relations have influencedscholarly knowledge. Contending Visions of the Middle East gives spe-cial attention to the ideas, politics and controversies that have shapedMiddle East studies in the United States over the past half-century,including the debates over Edward W. Said’s influential 1978 critiqueOrientalism. This book relates many of today’s critical issues, includingMuslim extremism, terrorism, the “clash of civilizations” and UnitedStates policy in the Middle East, to their broader historical, politicaland intellectual contexts.
Zachary Lockman teaches modernMiddle Eastern history at New YorkUniversity. His work has focused on Egypt and Palestine/Israel, and hispublications include Comrades and Enemies: Arab and Jewish Workers inPalestine, 1906–1948 (1996).
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Books published in The Contemporary Middle East series address the majorpolitical, economic and social debates facing the region today. Each title com-prises a survey of the available literature against the background of the author’sown critical interpretation which is designed to challenge and encourage inde-pendent analysis. While the focus of the series is the Middle East and NorthAfrica, books are presented as aspects of a rounded treatment, which cut acrossdisciplinary and geographic boundaries. They are intended to initiate debate inthe classroom, and to foster understanding amongst professionals and policymakers.
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It will be obvious that this book draws on the work of many other schol-ars. They are (I hope) all properly cited in the notes and listed in thebibliography, but I thank them here for the thinking and writing thathelped make this book possible. I would also like to thank Joel Beinin,Juan Cole, Brandon Fine, Bill Madsen, Eugene Rogan, James Schamusand the anonymous reader recruited by Cambridge University Press fortheir perceptive comments on my manuscript. I must also thank EugeneRogan for editing the series in which this book appears, and MarigoldAcland for supporting the series, and my contribution to it, with patienceand good humor. As has often been the case over the years, Robert Vitalishas been amost careful reader and energetic critic. I suspect that he won’tagree with everything in this book, but I hope that he will like at least someof it and recognize his influence on how it turned out.I took on the project of writing this book soon after my younger daugh-
ter, Maya Michal Lockman-Fine, was born; by the time it is publishedshe will be eight years old. I promised her many years ago that I woulddedicate this book to her, and among the many reasons that I am happyto be done with it is that it allows me to fulfill that promise. I have been,and always will be, grateful for her great spirit, intelligence and energy,and for the joy she brings into my life.
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