For Lust of Knowing (68 page)

Massignon, Louis,
47
,
195
,
196
,
220–
29,
231
,
291
,
309
,
324

anti-imperialism,
227–
8,
255

anti-Semitism,
225
,
228
,
255
,
273
,
324

Catholicism,
222
,
223
,
225–
6,
228–
9

at Collège de France,
222
,
225
,
259

influence,
235
,
251
,
253
,
256
,
262
,
274

patriotism,
223
,
227

Said on,
226
,
297–
8,
299

Second World War,
228

al-Mas'udi,
65
,
208

mathematics, Arab treatises,
28–
9

Mauriac, François,
222
,
228

Mayer, Leo Ari,
271

MECAS,
see
Middle East Centre for Arab Studies

Meccan Trade and the Rise of Islam
(Crone),
202
,
270

medicine, Arabic texts,
32–
4,
55

Medici Oriental Press,
75
,
80
,
104

Medieval Islam
(Grunebaum),
318

Mediterranean Society
(Goitein),
248

Mehmed II, Sultan,
57
,
60

Mehta, Vad,
303

Mein Kampf
(Hitler),
234

Mekka
(Hurgronje),
200

MESA,
see
Middle East Studies Association

metre, Arabic,
143

Metropolitan Museum, New York, Islamic collections,
247

Metternich, Prince,
151

Michaelis, Johann-David,
130–
32,
133
,
153

Michelozzi, Bernardo,
56

Middle East

American media and,
302

crisis (1973),
281

Protestant missions to,
214

religion in life,
294

Western economic dominance,
260
,
285

Middle East: 2000 Years of History…
(Lewis),
261–
2

Middle East Centre for Arab Studies (MECAS),
238
,
240–
41

Middlemarch
(Eliot),
79

Mill, James,
160

Mimesis
(Auerbach),
279

Mind,
journal,
303

Mines de l'Orient
(journal),
150

Miquel, André,
225
,
257–
8

Miskawayh,
211

missionaries, Christian,
65
,
86
,
104
,
214

Mithridates, Flavius,
58

Modern Language Association (MLA),
297

Mohacs, battle (1526),
60

Mohammed and the Rise of Islam
(Margoliouth),
211

Mohammedanism
(Margoliouth),
211
,
212
,
283

Mohammedanism
(Watt),
283

Mongols,
242

conversion to Islam,
44
,
46

papal missions to,
48

Monteil, Vincent,
228

Montenegro,
109

Montesquieu, Charles de Secondat, Baron de,
134
,
145

Moore, George,
124

Morgan, David,
245

Morocco, diplomatic language,
88

Morozov, N. A.,
233

Moses and Monotheism
(Freud),
308

Mu‘allaqat
(Jones),
123
,
125
,
172

Mu‘awiya, Umayyad Caliph,
202

al-Mubarrad,
179

Mughal Empire,
60
,
112

Muhammad, Prophet,
19
,
184

angels aid,
326

as Arian heretic(alleged),
20
,
23
,
36

attacks on,
71
,
94
,
115
,
145
,
162
,
211
,
318

chronology,
197

coffin,
50

epilepsy (alleged),
162
,
175
,
211

Hadiths,
70
,
184
,
194–
5,
249
,
325

instructed by Bahira/Sergius,
20
,
23
,
38
,
86

Jewish influence on,
57
,
321

as last of God's prophets,
320

marriages,
23
,
211

Postel on,
69
,
70

Renan on,
168
,
169

Sunna,
144

Muhammad at Mecca
(Watt),
197
,
202
,
267

Muhammad at Medina
(Watt),
197
,
202
,
267

Muhammad ibn Idris Shafi'i,
249

Muhammedanische Studien
(Goldziher),
195

Muir, Sir William,
147
,
162–
3,
187
,
296

Müller, Friedrich Max,
125
,
169
,
193
,
217

Mundy, Talbot (
pseud.
),
200

Muqaddimah
(Ibn Khaldun),
64
,
149–
50,
248

Murray, Gilbert,
209

Murray, John,
163

Museo Kircheriano, Vatican,
108

Musil, Alois,
215

Muslim Brotherhood,
317

Muslim Discovery of Europe, The
(Lewis),
261

Muslims,
see also
Islam

Christian conversion,
65

Christianity attacked by,
20–
21

Christian missionaries to,
37–
9

Jerusalem, capture,
21

Muslim Society
(Gellner),
303

Muslim World,
periodical,
296

Mustansariyya
madrasa
,
39

al-Mutanabbi,
37
,
128

Muteferrika, Ibrahim,
76

Mutterecht
,
184

Mysteries of Baphomet Revealed
(Hammer-Purgstall),
151

Mythos bei den Hebrdern und seine geschichtliche Entwicklung, Der
(Goldziher),
193

Nabataea, kingdom of,
18

Nadir Shah,
122
,
131

Nafh al-Tibb
(al-Maqqari),
231

nahw
, Arabicgrammar,
144

Nasr, Hossein,
316

Nasser, Gamal Abdul,
264

Nationalism in Asia and Africa
(Kedourie),
264

Natural History of Aleppo
(Russell),
121–
2,
164

Nature of Culture, The
(Kroeber),
247

Nature of the drink Kauhi, or Coffe
… (Pococke),
97

Nazi Party,
170
,
234–
6

Nazm al-Jawhar
,
95

Neoplatonism,
68

Nestorian Christianity,
57
,
75

Netherlands

Orientalism

17th century,
84
,
101–
4

18th century,
126–
7

19th century,
174

20th century,
199–
200

Netherlands, imperialism,
113

Nevo, Y. D.,
271

Newman, John Henry, Cardinal,
159

New Testament

Arabictranslation,
120

Christian corruption,
40
,
326

Persian translation,
181

New York, 9/11 attacks,
308

New York Review of Books
,
299
,
301

Nicaea, Council (325),
20

Nicholas of Cusa,
57
,
58
,
66
,
72
,
73

Nicholson, Reynold,
243

Nicholson, Roderick Alleyne,
83
,
151
,
207–
9,
296

Nicolay, Nicolas de,
63

Niebuhr, Carsten,
132
,
133

Nietzsche, F. W.,
149

al-Niffari,
244

Nizamiyya
madrasa
,
39

Nöldeke, Theodor,
185
,
197–
8,
202
,
207
,
214
,
217
,
283
,
287

and Arabic literature,
197–
8,
212
,
246

Prussian nationalism,
197
,
198

Qur'an, chronology,
197

Norden, Frederick Ludwig,
131

North Africa

Arab conquest,
19

French colonialist policy,
228

Noth, Albrecht,
187
,
270
,
274

Nouvelle considerations sur le caractère générale des peuples sémitiques
(Renan),
167

Nouvelles asiatiques
(Gobineau),
173

Novum Organum
(Bacon),
83

Nusayris,
145

Nyang, Suleyman,
325

Oakeshott, Michael,
263

Observations de plusieurs singularitez et choses memorables trouvées en Grece…
(Belon),
63

Observer, The
,
308

Ockley, Simon,
99
,
118–
20

Odyssey
(Homer),
154
,
209
,
210

Oedipus Aegyptiacus
(Kircher),
107

Old Testament

Hebrew language,
90

stories, evolution,
194

Olearius, Adam,
131

On Airs, Waters and Places
(Hippocrates),
17

On Indian Calculation
(Al-Khwarizmi),
28

Onomasticon Arabicum
(Caetani),
203

‘On the Development of the Hadith' (Goldziher),
195

‘On the Orientalists Again' (Tibawi),
319–
20

optics, Arabic treatises,
28–
9

Opus de emendatione temporum
(Scaliger),
77–
8

Oration on the Dignity of Man
(Pico della Mirandola),
58–
9

Oratio pro linguae Arabicae professione
(Pasor),
91

Order of Things, The
(Foucault),
284

Orient

culture,
160–
61

objective existence,
288

representation, Western monopoly,
3

schematization of,
285–
6

Western hegemony,
293

Orientalism

16th century,
76
,
80

17th century,
76
,
80
,
82–
3,
94

Britain,
80
,
87–
9,
94
,
101

Netherlands,
84
,
87
,
101–
4

18th century,
82–
3,
101
,
118

decline,
128–
9

France,
3
,
114–
17,
128

Germany,
127
,
130–
31

Netherlands,
126–
7

Russia,
113
,
129–
30

19th century,
146–
7,
180

Britain,
159
,
176–
7,
180

France,
142
,
145
,
146
,
148
,
150

Germany,
146–
7,
148
,
150
,
153
,
156
,
179
,
185–
7,
188

Netherlands,
174

Russia,
150
,
157–
8,
158

20th century,
188
,
196

Britain,
3
,
237–
9,
240–
41,
253
,
258
,
265–
6

First World War and,
214–
15,
217

France,
227
,
228

Germany,
198
,
201
,
234–
6

Netherlands,
199–
200

Algiers conference (1905),
221

amateur,
275

anti-colonialism and,
228

Arab criticism of,
310–
22,
320–
1,
325–
30

Catholic,
104
,
223
,
225–
6,
228–
9

chronology of,
284–
5

Cluniac,
282
,
284

contemporary prejudices in,
288

discourse of,
3
,
253
,
290–
91

formation of,
253

and imperialism,
3
,
147
,
204
,
229
,
309
,
324

Islamist criticism of,
310–
22

journals,
146–
7