Thomas Bauer, Die Kultur der Ambiguität: Eine andere Geschichte des Islams

Abstract

I t1 is surprising that the book lauded here as being on a par with Said’s seminal work Orientalism is still relatively unknown within Islamic studies, despite being published in 2011. Thomas Bauer’s Kultur der Ambiguität seems to be one of those works that draws more attention and provokes more enthusiasm in the neighboring disciplines than in in its own field.