Reconfiguring and Appropriating Arabic, Persian, and Indic Literary Traditions in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Britain - Orientalism and the Recreation of the Islamicate Canon

Gallien investigates the reconfigurations of literary traditions coming from Islamicate regions of the world by British orientalists. The book is concerned with the logics of orientalist selection, reconfiguration, and appropriation of Islamicate literary canons.