Collection Timeline

1560 to 2023

1560
"The Third Letter Dated Constantinople, 1 June 1560" in The Turkish Letters of Ogier Ghiselin de Busbecq Imperial Ambassador at Constantinople, 1554-1562 (Clarendon Press, 1968, first edition 1927)

1782
Libretto: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Original text by C.F. Bretzner, English version, John W. Bloch (G. Schirmer, 1962)

1831
A Muslim American Slave: The Life of Omar Ibn Said (University of Wisconsin Press, 2011)

1845
“The City of Paris,” in Disorienting Encounters: Travels of a Moroccan Scholar in France in 1845-1846, The Voyage of Muhammad As-Saffar

1965
“Mecca”⁠⁠ in The Autobiography of Malcolm X (Ballantine Books, 2015)

1974
The Venture of Islam: Conscience and History in a World Civilization, vol. 1 The Classical Age of Islam

1978
Orientalism (1978) as found in Colonial Discourse and Post-Colonial Theory: A Reader, Patrick Williams and Laura Chrisman, eds. (Columbia University Press, 1994)

1982
“The Question of Orientalism” in The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982
“Orientalism: An Exchange” in The New York Review of Books, 12 August 1982

1993
"The Clash of Civilizations?"
"The Image of the Turk in European Performing Arts" in Süleyman the Second and his Time, Halil İnalcık and Cemal Kafadar, eds. (ISIS Press, 1993)
“The Empire at Work: Verdi’s Aida” in Culture and Imperialism (New York: Vintage Books, 1993)

1997
"What do We Mean by Europe?”

2000
“The Role of the Public Intellectual," in the MIT Communications Forum
“Why Study Ottoman history?” in The Ottoman Empire, 1700-1922, New Approaches to European History series (Cambridge University Press, 2005)

2002
Muslims: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices
“Orientalism and After” in Power, Politics, and Culture: Interviews with Edward W. Said (Vintage Books, 2001)
"Introduction: Ottomancentrism and the West" in The Ottoman Empire and Early Modern Europe (Cambridge University Press, 2002)
“Is Aida an Orientalist Opera?” in Opera, Sex, and Other Vital Matters (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2002)

2003
Edward W. Said. Literary Critics and Advocate for Palestinian Independence, Dies at 67” in New York Times, 26 September 2003

2010
"On opera and society (assuming a relationship)" in Situating Opera: Period, Genre, Reception (Cambridge Studies in Opera) (Cambridge University Press, 2010)
A Country Called Amreeka: U.S. History Retold Through Arab-American Lives (New York: Free Press, 2009)
"Breaking the Binary," and "But There is Neither East nor West," in Being a Muslim in the World (Palgrave Pivot, 2013)

2012
“Introduction: Is There a Middle East? Problematizing a Virtual Space” in Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, Bonine, Amanat, and Gasper, eds.
“Of Maps and Regions: Where is the Geographer’s Middle East?” in Is There a Middle East? The Evolution of a Geopolitical Concept, Bonine, Amanat, and Gasper, eds.

2015
What is Islam? The Importance of Being Islamic

2016
“Osmin in Vienna: Mozart’s Abduction and the Centennial of the Ottoman Siege” in The Singing Turk (Stanford University Press, 2016)
The Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, and the Men Who Follow Him (Palgrave Macmillan, 2016)

2018
"Bernard Lewis, Influential Scholar of Islam, Is Dead at 101" in The New York Times (21 May 2018)

2019
“'Orientalism,’ Then and Now” in The New York Review of Books, 20 May 2019

2021
“Nationalism, Racial Difference, and ‘Egyptian’ Meaning in Verdi’s Aida,” in Blackness in Opera, Naomi André, Karen M. Bryan, and Eric Saylor, eds. (University of Illinois Press, 2012).

2023
Episode 1: Introducing the Getting Comfortable Podcast
Episode 2: (Un)Mapping Assumptions of a Region
Episode 3, Part One: To Capitalize or Not/Lexical Conundrums
Episode 3, Part Two: To Capitalize or Not/Lexical Conundrums
Episode 4, Part One: Of Absolute Categories and Civilizations
Episode 4, Part Two: Of Absolute Categories and Civilizations
Episode 5: Unpacking Europe
Episode 6: Theorising the West and Power
Episode 7: The Question of Orientalism and After
Episode 8: Becoming Familiar with the Ottomans
Episode 9, Part One: Ottomancentrism and the Diplomat
Episode 9, Part Two: Ottomancentrism and the Diplomat
Episode 10: The Ottoman Mehter, Harem-Escape Literature and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Episode 11: Aida, Verdi, and Colonial Legacy
Episode 12: Hajj Narratives and Early Muslim Voices
Episode 13: Either/Or, Neither/Nor, America/Amreeka
Episode 14: Getting Comfortable Takeaways