Orientalism Case Study

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ISLAMIC ONLINE UNIVERSITY
STUDENT NAME: MANAL ABDULRAHMAN SALIM
STUDENT ID: 10030769
COURSE NAME: ORIENTALISM
COURSE CODE: DHD 502
TYPE: FIRST ATTEMPT

QUESTION
Take a book by an Orientalist as a case study and explain the negative impact it leaves about Islam /Muslims on the reader’s mind.

Orientalism by the author known as Edward Said is a canonical script of cultural studies he has challenged the idea of orientalism or the discrepancy between west and east, as he mentions it. He explains that with the commence of European colonization the Europeans got in touch with the lesser developed countries of the east. They found their development and customs very mysterious, and established the knowledge of orientalism, which …show more content…

New thoughts that surfaced in intercultural contact undermined a priori assumptions time after time. Prejudices and stereotypes were widespread but never formed into an inflexible combined conversation on the Middle East. In actuality, academics who led the conversation often took the guide in deflation prejudices. Said, completed by saying that Western scholars of Islam precisely what he accused them of doing to the Middle East (Kramer, 1981).
Said 's ignored of the extent and complexity of study on Islam and the Middle East provoked people to state that Edward was not known sufficient with the core body of scholarly study on the Middle East( Rodinson, 1998). However, Edward 's disregarding of this scholarship doesn’t emerge to consequence from a lack of awareness, but quite from a political outline, and the evidence of this is that he sustained to make his influence regarding the monolithic nature of Middle Eastern studies years after publishing this …show more content…

They attack Orientalism as a conversation which formulates realization and leads to accomplishment, while concurrently ignoring the Islamic dialogue and its power on the expansion of perceptions which can lead to real deeds. One of the outcomes of this opposition is the universal state by the critics of Orientalism that there is no relationship between aggression and belief. Without disregarding the significance of the deep economic, communal, and political roots of violence, it is obvious to anybody who lives in the Middle East that the spiritual dialogue and weltanschauung has a reflective effect on the politics and the world of the state. Ignoring the faith of Islam, claims Kramer, caused Edward and his followers to intensely misinterpret the ascend of Islamism as an important political authority in the Middle East since the

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