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Author: Ibn Warraq
Publisher: Prometheus Books
Imprint: Prometheus Books
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.454kg
ISBN: 9781591024842
ISBN 10: 1591024846
Pages: 556
Publication Date: 01 August 2007
Audience:
College/higher education
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Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Manufactured on demand
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Reviews
"""...the immensely erudite and clear-minded Ibn Warraq...refutes every point that Said made in his most famous book, Orientalism...Defending the West is...a book of great learning...No one, except cultural historians, need ever read, let alone refute, Said again."" -- National Review, April 7, 2008 vol. LX, No. 6 ""[This] is, on the whole, a book of great learning, full of information that to most readers will be recondite, but that is nonetheless entirely relevant to its overall theme...If I were a teacher of the humanities, however I would give my students Said's Orientatalism to read, then Warraq's Defending the West, to demonstrate the difference between militant malice and erudition."" --Book Review Digest, Aug. 1, 2008 ""Ibn Warraq's critique of Said's thought and work is thorough and convincing, indeed devastating to anyone depending on Saidism. It should force the Saidists to acknowledge the sophistry of their false prophet."" --Middle Eastern Quarterly, Winter 2009 ""free minds owe Ibn Warraq their genuine gratitude."" -- Free Inquiry, Vol. 29, No. 3, April/May 2009"
...the immensely erudite and clear-minded Ibn Warraq...refutes every point that Said made in his most famous book, Orientalism...Defending the West is...a book of great learning...No one, except cultural historians, need ever read, let alone refute, Said again. -- National Review, April 7, 2008 vol. LX, No. 6 [This] is, on the whole, a book of great learning, full of information that to most readers will be recondite, but that is nonetheless entirely relevant to its overall theme...If I were a teacher of the humanities, however I would give my students Said's Orientatalism to read, then Warraq's Defending the West, to demonstrate the difference between militant malice and erudition. --Book Review Digest, Aug. 1, 2008 Ibn Warraq's critique of Said's thought and work is thorough and convincing, indeed devastating to anyone depending on Saidism. It should force the Saidists to acknowledge the sophistry of their false prophet. --Middle Eastern Quarterly, Winter 2009 free minds owe Ibn Warraq their genuine gratitude. -- Free Inquiry, Vol. 29, No. 3, April/May 2009
Author Information
Ibn Warraq is the highly acclaimed author of Why I Am Not a Muslim and Defending the West. He is also the editor of The Origins of the Koran, What the Koran Really Says, Leaving Islam, The Quest for the Historical Muhammad, and Which Koran?.
