For Lust of Knowing (69 page)

Khomeini on,
314

Latin publications,
287–
8

learned societies,
146–
7

Leiden,
101
,
104
,
190

Leiden Conference (1883),
169
,
257

Marxist Islamist criticism of,
322–
5

meaning of term,
5–
6

origins,
3
,
6–
7,
299

Paris Conference (1873),
147
,
190

Protestant,
102

as reified 'Other,'
291

Said on,
3

Wanderjahre
and,
205

Western, influences on,
150

Orientalism, Islam and Islamists
(Faruqi),
325

‘Orientalism and the Study of IslamicPhilosophy' (Mahdi),
329

‘Orientalism in Crisis' (Abdel-Malek),
324
,
325

‘Orientalism Reconsidered' (Said),
283–
4,
287

Orientalism
(Said),
126
,
281–
2

criticism of,
254
,
256–
7,
299–
304,
309

Gibb in,
282
,
296
,
297
,
298

Gobineau in,
170

influence,
276

Lane in,
282
,
295

on leading centre for Orientalism studies,
286–
9

Lewis in,
259
,
262–
3,
282–
3,
290

Lewis's review,
301–
2

obscurity in,
289

problems of,
3–
4,
282–
6,
293–
4

Renan in,
166
,
282
,
287
,
290

Vatikiotis in,
264

Orientalism
(Sardar),
326–
8

‘Orientalist,' use in English,
5–
6,
159

Orient d'une vie, L'
(Miquel),
258

Orient et Occident
(Guénon),
315

Origin of Isma'ilism, The
(Lewis),
259

Origins of Muslim Jurisprudence, The
(Schacht),
249

Orthodox Church

iconoclast movement,
22
,
23

union with Rome,
57
,
58
,
65

Oslo peace agreement,
305

‘Other,' concept of,
5
,
10–
11,
291
,
324

Ottoman Empire,
60
,
286

16th century travellers in,
110–
11

break-up,
215

decline,
110
,
112
,
133

imperialism,
285

Out of Place
(Said),
278
,
307
,
308

Owen, Roger,
245

Oxford University

decline,
117–
18

Oxford university

decline,
177–
8

Laudian professorship,
93
,
97
,
99
,
100
,
177
,
209
,
210
,
211
,
266

Oriental studies,
178–
9

teaching of Arabic,
47–
8,
90–
92,
93
,
94
,
177–
8,
266

Padua University, and Averroism,
57

Paganini, Paginino de,
75

Pahlavi family,
312

Painting in Islam
(Arnold),
218

Palestine, Crusader,
37

Palestine Exploration Fund,
180–
81

Palestine Liberation Organization,
260
,
264

Christian Arabs in,
305

Palestinian National Council,
306

Palmer, Edward,
162
,
180–
82,
183
,
204
,
209

death,
182

languages,
180

Palmyra, kingdom of,
18

Papacy

Arabicprinting, sponsorship,
75

compared to Islam,
49

and Maronite Arabs,
80

reform, medieval campaign,
49

Parallels and Paradoxes: Explorations in Music and Society
(Barenboim & Said),
308

Paris

Orientalist Conference (1873),
147
,
190

teaching of Arabic,
47–
8

Parzival
(Eschenbach),
152

Pasor, Matthias,
91
,
93

Passion d'al-Hallaj martyr mystique de l'Islam
(Massignon),
222–
4

Pattison, Mark,
178

Paul, St,
55

Péguy, Charles,
225

Pensées morales des Arabes
(Galland),
115–
16

Pentateuch,
187

Persepolis,
12

Persian Empire,
11
,
60
,
70
,
286

Persian Grammar
(Lambton),
207

Persian language,
99
,
122
,
162
,
206

Arabicelement,
160
,
207

imperialism and,
113
,
125
,
160

Persian literature,
113
,
151

Persians, Greek attitude to,
10
,
11

Persians, The
(Aeschylus),
11–
12

Pest, University of,
191

Peter I, the Great, Emperor of Russia,
129–
30

Peter the Venerable, Abbot of Cluny,
18
,
24
,
26–
8,
71
,
282

Petra city,
18

Petrarch, Francesco,
55
,
56

Petrushevsky, I. P.,
229
,
230

Philip, emperor of Rome,
18

Philip II, king of Spain,
74
,
80

Philip IV, king of France,
151

Philips, Cyril,
218
,
219

philology

19th century,
149

First World War and,
215

German,
213
,
274

Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica
(Newton),
83

Philosophus Autodidactus
(Pococke),
97
,
119

Picatrix
,
30

Pico della Mirandola,
58–
60,
66
,
69
,
80

Picot, Georges,
222

Piers Plowman
(Langland),
49

Pilgrim's Progress
(Bunyan),
83

Pius II, Pope (Aeneas Sylvius),
57
,
60

Plague, The
(Camus),
313

Plantin, Christophe,
74
,
80
,
81

Plataea, battle (479 BC),
11

Pococke, Edward,
7
,
81
,
88
,
93–
7,
104
,
108
,
128

coffee-drinking,
97

as Laudian professor,
94

as Levant Company chaplain,
93–
4

Said and,
282
,
287

Poesas Asiaticae Commentarii
(Jones),
162

poetry,
see also
Arabic poetry magical aspects,
194

Politics, The
(Aristotle),
16–
17

Pollock, Sheldon,
301

Polo, Marco,
62

polyglot Bibles,
73–
4,
95–
6

Pompey's Pillar, Alexandria,
163

Pope,
see also
Papacy as Antichrist,
72

Porta Mosis
(Maimonides),
94

Port Royal Abbey,
141
,
143–
4

Postel, Guillaume,
64
,
66–
71,
74
,
78
,
80
,
102
,
285

cabalism,
66
,
68
,
71

Eastern travels,
67

as first Orientalist,
6
,
53
,
66
,
284

insanity,
68

Orientalism,
69–
71

patriotism,
68–
9

on Protestantism,
70

Postmodernism, Reason and Religion
(Gellner),
303

Preaching of Islam, The
(Arnold),
218

Prester John,
50

Prideaux, Humphrey,
100
,
119

Principi di una scienza nuova
(Vico),
279–
80

printing, Arabictypeface,
75
,
76
,
84
,
93
,
137

Prison Notebooks
(Gramsci),
290

‘Problems of Orientalists, The' (Algar),
318

Prodromus ad refutationem Alcorani
(Marracci),
105

Prolegomena ad Homerum
(Wolf),
154

Prolegomena zur Geschichte Israels
(Ewald),
185

Prolégomènes d'Ebn Khaldun: texte arabe
(ed. Quatremère),
149

Protestantism

and Islam,
86

rise,
70

Proverbia Arabica
(Scaliger),
77

Proverbs
(‘Ali),
128

Psalter, polyglot,
75

‘pseudo-Waqidi',
119

Ptolemy, Claudius,
29
,
34
,
92

Purchas, Samuel,
62

Pyramidagraphia
(Greaves),
92

Qadisiyya, Arab conquest,
19

al-Qanun fi al-Tibb
(Avicenna),
32
,
33
,
75
,
128

Qarafa cemetery, Cairo,
225

qasidas,
213

al-Qazwini,
40

Quatremère, Etienne-Marc,
148–
9,
174
,
176

Quatre premiers livres des navigations et peregrinations orientales
(Nicolay),
63

Quellenkritische Studien zu Themen, Formen und Tendenzen frühislamischer Geschichtsüberlieferung
(Noth),
270

Question of Palestine, The
(Said),
300
,
305

Questions of Abdallah ibn Salam,
27

Qur'an

19th-century interest in,
180

Arabic learnt from,
78

beauty of,
46

biblical tradition, perceived dependence on,
268

chronology of Suras,
197

on collaboration with Orientalists,
326

critical study,
94

Crusaders and,
36–
7

as divine revelation,
26
,
310
,
316
,
318
,
321
,
327–
8

English translation,
120–
21,
181

final text,
269

foreign influences on,
194

French translation,
104–
5,
121

Jesus in,
22
,
38

Jewish influence on,
57
,
155
,
230
,
269

John of Damascus on,
23

al-Kindi on,
24

knowledge of,
113

Latin translation,
26–
8,
70
,
71
,
105–
6,
121

medieval commentaries,
153

medieval copies,
48

Nestorian influence,
57

Paradise in,
21

printed,
71–
2,
75
,
76
,
87
,
143

Russian translation,
130
,
231–
2

Sura of Joseph,
225

translation,
26–
8,
48
,
70
,
71
,
104–
6,
120–
21,
327

Quranic Studies: Sources and Methods of Scriptural Interpretation
(Wansbrough),
268–
9

Quraysh tribe, Mecca,
202
,
208
,
267
,
326

Qutb, Sayyid,
314
,
316–
18

Rabat, Nasser,
292

Race and Color in Islam
(Lewis),
260–
61

Race and Slavery in the Middle East
(Lewis),
261

racism, 19th-century Europe,
173–
4

Racolta de Navigazioni et viaggi
(Ramusio),
62

Rahman, Fazlur,
245
,
292
,
328–
9

Raimondi, Giovan Battista,
75
,
81

Raimundo, Archbishop of Toledo,
26

Rameses II,
133

Ramusio, Giambattista,
62

Ranke, Leopold von,
155–
6,
188

Raphelengius, Franciscus,
71
,
74
,
79
,
84
,
101–
2

Raymond, André,
298

Recherches sur l'histoire et littéraire de l'Espagne…
(Dozy),
175

Reeland, Adrian,
126