A Metahistory of the Clash of Civilisations: Us and Them Beyond Orientalism

by Arshin Adib-Moghaddam

Book Overview

This book seeks to dispel the myth that we have ever been embroiled in some "clash of civilisations." Adib-Moghaddam traverses various intellectual disciplines in order to find a pathway through the conceptual maze that has habituated us to think in "tribal" categories. Accompanying the reader on this journey from the wars between ancient Persia and Greece, the Crusades, Colonialism and the Enlightenment to the contemporary "wars on terror" are thinkers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199333521
• ISBN13: 9780199333523
• Release Date: January 2014
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.5" x 8.4"