EAN: 9783110639254

FRIEDRICH ROSEN - AMIR THEILHABER GEBUNDEN

The German lacuna in Edward Said's 'Orientalism' has produced varied studies of German cultural
and academic Orientalisms. So far the domains of German politics and scholarship have not been
conflated to probe the central power knowledge nexus of Said's argument. Seeking to fill this
gap  the diplomatic career and scholarly-literary productions of the centrally placed Friedrich
Rosen serve as a focal point to investigate how politics influenced knowledge generated about
the Orient and charts the roles knowledge played in political decision-making regarding
extra-European regions. This is pursued through analyses of Germans in British imperialist
contexts  cultures of lowly diplomatic encounters in Middle Eastern cities  Persian poetry in
translation  prestigious Orientalist congresses in northern climes  leveraging knowledge in
high-stakes diplomatic encounters  and the making of Germany's Islam policy up to the Great
War. Politics drew on bodies of knowledge and could promote or hinder scholarship. Yet 
scholars never systemically followed empire in its tracks but sought their own paths to
cognition. On their own terms or influenced by Oriental savants they aligned with politics or
challenged claims to conquest and rule.

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