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 Format: Paperback, 137 pages
Publisher: Washington Institute for Near East Policy, The
ISBN: 0944029493
Release Date: Jan 1, 2002
| |  | | | In Brief
Kramer's critique of Middle East studies programs in the US will garner strong opinions among specialists in the field. Kramer, editor of Middle East Quarterly, examines the political and financial histories of the US programs, raising questions about the objectivity of their scholarship. He concludes with suggestions to make American Middle East studies truer to the actual culture, religious views, and political ideas of the countries they seek to present.
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On campuses throughout the United States, thousands of professors study and teach the Middle East. They fill the pages of journals, the shelves of libraries, and the minds of students with their paradigms, theories, and predictions. In Middle East crises, the media seek their opinions. Their enterprise is deemed a national resource: the federal government subsidizes over a dozen academic centers devoted to the Middle East.
Yet for the past twenty years, Middle Eastern studies in America have been factories of error. The academics, blinded by their own prejudices and enslaved to the fashions of the disciplines, have failed to anticipate or explain any of the major developments in the Middle East. Within the field, hardly a voice dares to protest, but beyond it, each debacle chips away at academe's credibility. Middle Eastern studies have failed--at a time when understanding the Middle East has become crucial to America.
In this iconoclastic expose, Martin Kramer surveys the ruins of Middle Eastern studies, to ask how and why they went wrong. Ivory Towers on Sand is the most thorough critique of Middle Eastern studies in America ever published--and a necessary step toward their reconstruction.
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| | | |  | | | | Acknowledgments | vii | | Preface | ix | | Introduction | 1 | | 1 | An American Invention | 5 | | 2 | Said's Splash | 27 | | 3 | Islam Obscured | 44 | | 4 | Misstating the State | 61 | | 5 | The Beltway Barrier | 84 | | 6 | The Cultivation of Irrelevance | 104 | | Conclusion: When Gods Fail | 120 | | Appendix | 131 | | Index | 133 |
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