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A review by ithinktfiam
Threads of Empire: A History of the World in Twelve Carpets by Dorothy Armstrong
3.0
A nice concept brought down to average by two European ignorance's. The basics are a book covering the history of twelve carpets,starting with the earliest ever found. The simple items and how they came to be was interesting. What wasn't was two re-occuring problems.
First, she's bought fully into Edward Said's Orientalism, the concept that because Christianity wasn't perfect Islam must be better. She continues to show that in so many ways, but let's stick to two. She wouldn't call Jesus the God-Boy, but she never calls Mohamed by this name, only the Prophet. Pure pandering. Then there's the repeated discussions of colonialism without the understanding or admission that Islam is the ultimate colonial enterprise, dedicated to a global caliphate. She mentions the Crusaders attacking those innocent Muslims to get to Jerusalem, with no mention of why Muslims controlled the Levant, North Africa and most of the Iberian Peninsula, only to be stopped on the fields of France.
The other is less dangerous but even more silly. There's no more a Eurasia than there is a Chinasia or Indasia. While attacking the west for colonialism, she continues the nonsense that Europe is more than the political unit in West Asia. Hypocritical, but it's what is to be expected from that area.
First, she's bought fully into Edward Said's Orientalism, the concept that because Christianity wasn't perfect Islam must be better. She continues to show that in so many ways, but let's stick to two. She wouldn't call Jesus the God-Boy, but she never calls Mohamed by this name, only the Prophet. Pure pandering. Then there's the repeated discussions of colonialism without the understanding or admission that Islam is the ultimate colonial enterprise, dedicated to a global caliphate. She mentions the Crusaders attacking those innocent Muslims to get to Jerusalem, with no mention of why Muslims controlled the Levant, North Africa and most of the Iberian Peninsula, only to be stopped on the fields of France.
The other is less dangerous but even more silly. There's no more a Eurasia than there is a Chinasia or Indasia. While attacking the west for colonialism, she continues the nonsense that Europe is more than the political unit in West Asia. Hypocritical, but it's what is to be expected from that area.