Contents

Preface (2003) - xi

Acknowledgments - xxiv

Introduction - 1

Chapter 1: The Scope of Orientalism

I. Knowing the Oriental - 31

II. Imaginative Geography and Its Representations: Orientalizing the Oriental - 49

III. Projects - 73

IV. Crisis - 92

Chapter 2:Orientalist Structures and Restructures

I. Redrawn Frontiers, Redefined Issues, Secularized Religion -113

II. Silvestre de Sacy and Ernest Renan: Rational Anthropology and Philological Laboratory -123

III. Oriental Residence and Scholarship: The Requirements of Lexicography and Imagination -149

IV. Pilgrims and Pilgrimages, British and French -166

Chapter 3:Orientalism Now

I. Latent and Manifest Orientalism -201

II. Style, Expertise, Vision: Orientalism's Worldliness -226

III. Modern Anglo-French Orientalism in Fullest Flower -255

IV. The Latest Phase-284

Afterword to the 1995 printing-329

Notes-355

Index -379