Acknowledgements IX
List of Illustrations XI
Note on Contributors XII
1
An Introduction: The Sociology of Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism (Theories and Praxis) 1
Tugrul Keskin
2
At the Threshold of Iranian Studies 24
Babak Elahi
3
A Genealogy of Orientalism in Afghanistan: The Colonial Image Lineage 50
Shah Mahmoud Hanifi
4
Orientalism and Neo-Orientalism: Arabic Representations and the Study of Arabic 81
Manuela E.B. Giolfo and Francesco L. Sinatora
5
Middle Eastern Studies in the United Kingdom Post-September 11: A Battlefield of Orientalism 100
Ameena Al-Rasheed Nayel
6
The Onto-Politics of Moderation: Studying Islamist Politics and Democracy in the Middle East 122
Dunya D. Cakir
7
The Dilemma of Postcolonial and/or Orientalist Feminism in Iranian Diasporic Advocacy of Women’s Rights in the Homeland 150
Mahmoud Arghavan
8
Let the Oriental Perform: A Critical Approach to Neo-Orientalism at Work in Turkish Politics 173
Merve Kavakci
9
(Neo)Orientalism: Alive and Well in American Academia: A Case Study of Contemporary Iranian Art 194
Staci Gem Scheiwiller
10
Neo-Orientalism, Neo-Conservatism, and Terror in Salman Rushdie’s Post-9/11 Novel 214
Beyazit H. Akman
11
The Jasmine in the Fist: International Democratization Strategies in the Arab Spring and Beyond 244
Emanuela C. Del Re
12
Iranian Studies in the United States and the Politics of Knowledge Production on Post-Revolutionary Iran 271
Seyed Mohammd Marandi and Zeinab Ghasemi Tari
Index 297