Orientalism : early sources

The debate about orientalism covers the history of modern sociology starting with the works of Max Weber and continuing through a long discussion with Marxism, the sociology of development and mainstream sociology.

This debate about orientalism has been intensified by the process of decolonisation and the emergence of related intellectual debates around colonial literatures, feminism and orientalism and so-called subaltern studies.

This set publishes some of the leading European contributors to the early formation of historical and social science analysis of the Orient.

The set will concentrate on those authors who have shaped the modern debate about Orientalism, especially about its Islamic components.

In particular, these authors had a significant impact on social science, particularly for example, on the work of Max Weber and subsequently on early twentieth century Marxist debates about the so-called Asiatic mode of production.