Style and level of discussion makes this an ideal intro to Western thought and the East: not philosophically dense. Said's classics `Orientalism' only discusses

Tackling debates on orientalism, post colonialism and postmodernism, Oriental Enlightenment provides a new perspective on cross cultural exchanges between East

Srinivas Aravamudan here reveals how Oriental tales, pseudo-ethnographies, sexual fantasies, and political satires took Europe by storm during the eighteenth ce

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of