The Sultan's Court keyword-saints and the postcolonial

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The Sultan's Court keyword-saints and the postcolonialEdward Saids Orientalism (1978) has justly attracted great respect and attention for its account of Western perceptions and representations of the Orient, but the English speaking world has for too long been unaware of another classic in the same field which appeared in France only a year later. Alain Grosrichards The Sultans Court is a fascinating and careful deconstruction of Western accounts of Oriental despotism in the seventeenth and eighteenth