 | European Modernity and the Arab Mediterranean: Toward a New Philology and a Counter-Orientalism Subjects: Arabic philology -- History -- 19th century; Arabic philology -- History -- 20th century; Islamic civilization; Europe -- Civilization -- Arab influences; Scheherazade (Legendary character); Mallette examines Orientalist philology in southern Europe produced between the mid-nineteenth and mid-twentieth century. Focusing on Italy, Spain, and Malta, she conducts close comparative readings of a wide range of philological narratives to reveal the influences Arab and Islamic traditions have had on the development of modern European culture. Karla Mallette is Associate Professor of Italian and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the author of The Kingdom of Sicily, 1100-1250: A Literary History, also published by the University of Pennsylvania Press. |
