Race and Erudition is a brilliant, riveting work of warning and illumination. It is crucial reading for anyone seeking to understand the fabric, or rather the fabrication, at the highest (and lowest) levels, of the social fictions and myths of otherness, by which we live and die, by which we continue to suffer and inflict often atrocious suffering.
   --Peter Sacks, author of O Wheel and Necessity

Maurice Olender is Maître de Conférences at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, Paris.

Read More by Maurice Olender:

• The Languages of Paradise: Race, Religion, and Philology in the Nineteenth Century

Read More by Jane Marie Todd:

• The Flowering of Muslim Theology
• Flesh Made Word: Saints' Stories and the Western Imagination
• Earthly Paradise: Myths and Philosophies
• Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World