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Idols in the EastEuropean Representations of Islam and the Orient, 11001450\nAuthor(s): Suzanne Conklin Akbari\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: Cornell University Press\nISBN-13: 9780801477812, 978-0801477812\nSynopsis\nRepresentations of Muslims have never been more common in the Western imagination than they are today. Building on Orientalist stereotypes constructed over centuries, the figure of the wily Arab has given rise, at the dawn of the twenty-first century, to the \""Islamist\"" terrorist. In Idols in the East, Suzanne Conklin Akbari explores the premodern background of some of the Orientalist types still pervasive in present-day depictions of Muslimsthe irascible and irrational Arab, the religiously deviant Islamistand about how these stereotypes developed over time. \n\n Idols in the East contributes to the recent surge of interest in European encounters with Islam and the Orient in the premodern world. Focusing on the medieva.