“A gorgeously written book whose literary chops are beyond doubt. Come for the prose, and stay for the murders.” — USA Today “This is beach reading that

A groundbreaking critique of the West's historical, cultural, and political perceptions of the East that is—three decades after its first publication—one of

Originally published: New York: Harcourt, Brace and Co., c1935.

The Orient in Utrecht unfolds the intellectual biography of Adriaan Reland (1676-1718), professor of Oriental languages and Hebrew Antiquities in Utrecht, philo