P. M. Holt et al. (Cambridge, 1970, 2 vols., cloth; 1977, 4 vols., paper). This work, hailed British and Ameri- can scholars, is a target of a slashing new attack on studies of Islam by Westerners. In Orientalism (Pan-theon, 1978), Edward W. Said, a Co- lumbia University professor of com- parative literature and winner of the first (1 976) Lionel Trilling Award for
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criticism, writes that "none of the innumerable Orientalist texts on Is- lam, including their...