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ajiss-1829	Bullock, Katherine	Arabian Mirrors and Western Soothsayers: Nineteenth-Century Literary Approaches to Arab-Islamic History by Muhammed A. Al-Da'mi (New York: Peter Lang, 2002. 235 pages.)	2003.0	3	.pdf	application/pdf	631	22	49	His main argument is that the writers used Arabo-Islamic history not simply as an exotic or a romantic flourish, but rather as an integral and important aspect of their discourses to comment upon their own time. They concentrated only on those themes of Arabo-Islamic history that could make their own arguments with their contemporaries more persuasive (e.g., the spread of empire, the romantic Bedouin, the despotic sultan, polygamy, slavery, and the like), while ignoring other aspects (e.g., the sci­ entific and cultural achievements of the Arabo-lslamic civilizations, and such intellectual thinkers as Ibn Khaldun and al-GhazaJi).	cache/ajiss-1829.pdf	txt/ajiss-1829.txt