Reassessing Orientalism

Michael Kemper is Professor of Eastern European Studies at the University of Amsterdam, NetherlandsArtemy M. Kalinovsky is Assistant Professor in the European Studies Department at the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands

• 1. Introduction: Interlocking Orientologies in the Cold War Era Part 1: Origins and Comparisons 2. Orients Compared: US and Soviet Imaginaries of the Modern Middle East Part 2: Transfers 3. From Tents to Citadels: The Transfer of Oriental Archaeology to Soviet Kazakhstan 4. ‘Ulama’-Orientalists: Madrasa Graduates at the Soviet Institute of Oriental Studies 5. "Because of our Commercial Intercourse and Bringing about a Better Understanding Between the Two Peoples": A History of Japanese Studies in the United States Part 3: Competition and Conflict 6. Competing National Orientalisms: The Cases of Belgrade and Sarajevo 7. Propaganda for the East, Scholarship for the West: Soviet Strategies at the 1960 International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow 8. Encouraging Resistance: Paul Henze, the Bennigsen School, and the Crisis of Détente

"On their merits individually, and taken as a whole, the contributions in this volume will be of great interest to scholars of Soviet history, the Cold War, contemporary Islam, and academic politics. Kemper and Kalinovsky have set the agenda for scholarly discussions of Orientalism for the near future."Eren Tasar, University of North Carolina