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Orientalism (book)

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Orientalism is a 1978 book by Edward W. Said, in which the author discusses Orientalism, defined as the West's patronizing representations of "The East"—the societies and peoples who inhabit the places of Asia, North Africa, and the Middle East. [1]

79 relations: A Passage to India, Alexander Cockburn, Anti-Turkism, Arab street, Arguably, Bernard Lewis, Bibliography of anthropology, China: Through the Looking Glass, Chinese historiography, Colonialism, Criticism of the War on Terror, Cultural imperialism, Culture and Imperialism, East Asian studies, East–West dichotomy, Edward Said, Edward Said bibliography, Eliza Marian Butler, Ethnomusicology, For Lust of Knowing, Harry Harootunian, History of modernisation theory, Ignác Goldziher, Imagined geographies, Imperialism, Index of continental philosophy articles, Index of philosophical literature, Index of philosophy articles (I–Q), International volunteering, Iranian modern and contemporary art, Islamophobia in the media, Islamophobia in the United States, Lila Abu-Lughod, Linda Nochlin, Ling Woo, List of important publications in philosophy, List of polyglots, List of works in critical theory, Louis Massignon, Maria Todorova, Medieval Christian views on Muhammad, Memoirs Relative to Egypt Published During the Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Years 1798 and 1799, Middle Eastern studies, Moorish Revival architecture, Nesting Orientalisms, Occidentalism, Olivia Manning, Orient, Oriental studies, Orientalism, ..., Orientalist, Ornamentalism, Other (philosophy), Ottoman decline thesis, Palestine (comics), Political aspects of Islam, Postcolonial literature, Postcolonialism, Princeton Reunions, Robert Irwin (writer), Ronald Inden, Sadiq Jalal al-Azm, Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States, Steven Emerson, Subaltern (postcolonialism), Syed Hussein Alatas, The Arab Mind, The Cleanest Race, The Snake Charmer, The Split of Life, Tropical geography, V. Y. Mudimbe, War elephant, Waswo X. Waswo, Westernization, William Jones (philologist), William Robertson Smith, Yellow Peril, 1978 in literature. Expand index (29 more) »

A Passage to India

A Passage to India (1924) is a novel by English author E. M. Forster set against the backdrop of the British Raj and the Indian independence movement in the 1920s.

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Alexander Cockburn

Alexander Claud Cockburn (6 June 1941 – 21 July 2012) was an Irish-American political journalist and writer.

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Anti-Turkism

Anti-Turkism, also known as Turkophobia or anti-Turkish sentiment, is hostility, intolerance, or racism against Turkish or Turkic people, Turkish culture, Turkic countries, or Turkey itself.

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Arab street

The Arab street (الشارع العربي, ash-shāriʿ al-ʿarabī) is an expression referring to the spectrum of public opinion in the Arab world, often as opposed or contrasted to the opinions of Arab governments.

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Arguably

Arguably: Essays is a 2011 book by Christopher Hitchens, comprising 107 essays on a variety of political and cultural topics.

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Bernard Lewis

Bernard Lewis, FBA (31 May 1916 – 19 May 2018) was a British American historian specializing in oriental studies.

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Bibliography of anthropology

This bibliography of anthropology lists some notable publications in the field of anthropology, including its various subfields.

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China: Through the Looking Glass

China: Through the Looking Glass was an art exhibition held in 2015 at the Metropolitan Museum of Art focusing on the impact of Chinese design on Western fashion over the centuries.

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Chinese historiography

Chinese historiography is the study of the techniques and sources used by historians to develop the recorded history of China.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Criticism of the War on Terror

Criticism of the War on Terror addresses the morals, ethics, efficiency, economics, as well as other issues surrounding the War on Terror.

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Cultural imperialism

Cultural imperialism comprises the cultural aspects of imperialism.

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Culture and Imperialism

Culture and Imperialism is a 1993 collection of essays by Edward Said, in which the author attempts to trace the connection between imperialism and culture in the 18th, 19th, and 20th centuries.

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East Asian studies

East Asian studies is a distinct multidisciplinary field of scholarly enquiry and education that promotes a broad humanistic understanding of East Asia past and present.

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East–West dichotomy

In sociology, the East–West dichotomy is the perceived difference between the Eastern world and Western world.

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Edward Said

Edward Wadie Said (إدوارد وديع سعيد,; 1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a professor of literature at Columbia University, a public intellectual, and a founder of the academic field of postcolonial studies.

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Edward Said bibliography

Edward Said (1 November 1935 – 25 September 2003) was a literary theorist, cultural critic, and political activist for Palestine.

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Eliza Marian Butler

Eliza Marian Butler (29 December 1885 – 13 November 1959), who published as E. M. Butler and Elizabeth M. Butler, was an English scholar of German, Schröder Professor of German at the University of Cambridge from 1945.

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Ethnomusicology

Ethnomusicology is the study of music from the cultural and social aspects of the people who make it.

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For Lust of Knowing

For Lust of Knowing: The Orientalists and their Enemies, published in the United States under the title Dangerous Knowledge: Orientalism and Its Discontents, is a 2006 non-fiction book by British historian Robert Irwin.

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Harry Harootunian

Harry D. Harootunian (born 1929) is an American historian of early modern and modern Japan with an interest in historical theory.

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History of modernisation theory

This article delineates the history of modernisation theory.

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Ignác Goldziher

Ignác (Yitzhaq Yehuda) Goldziher (22 June 1850 – 13 November 1921), often credited as Ignaz Goldziher, was a Hungarian scholar of Islam.

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Imagined geographies

The concept of imagined (also referred as imaginative) geographies originated from Edward Said, particularly his work on critique on Orientalism.

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Imperialism

Imperialism is a policy that involves a nation extending its power by the acquisition of lands by purchase, diplomacy or military force.

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Index of continental philosophy articles

This is a list of articles in continental philosophy.

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Index of philosophical literature

This is a list of philosophical literature articles.

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Index of philosophy articles (I–Q)

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International volunteering

International volunteering is when volunteers contribute their time to work for organisations or causes outside their respective home countries.

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Iranian modern and contemporary art

A cursory glance at the history of art reveals that social, political and economic conditions have always played a major role in the emergence of new artistic currents and styles.

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Islamophobia in the media

Islamophobia in the media refers to the occurrence or perception that media outlets tend to cover Muslims or Islam-related topics in a negative light.

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Islamophobia in the United States

Islamophobia in the United States can be described as the unvalidated, highly speculative, affective distrust and hostility towards Muslims, Islam, and those perceived as following the religion and or appear as members of the religion and its associative groups.

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Lila Abu-Lughod

Lila Abu-Lughod (born 1952) is an American anthropologist.

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Linda Nochlin

Linda Nochlin (née Weinberg; January 30, 1931 – October 29, 2017) was an American art historian, Lila Acheson Wallace Professor Emerita of Modern Art at New York University Institute of Fine Arts, and writer.

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Ling Woo

Ling Woo is a fictional character in the US comedy-drama Ally McBeal, portrayed by Chinese-American actress Lucy Liu.

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List of important publications in philosophy

This is a list of important publications in philosophy, organized by field.

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List of polyglots

A polyglot is a person with a command of many languages.

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List of works in critical theory

This is a list of important and seminal works in the field of critical theory.

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Louis Massignon

Louis Massignon (25 July 1883 – 31 October 1962) was a Catholic scholar of Islam and a pioneer of Catholic-Muslim mutual understanding.

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Maria Todorova

Maria N. Todorova (Bulgarian: Мария Н. Тодорова) (born 1949, Sofia) is a Bulgarian historian who is best known for her influential book, Imagining the Balkans, in which she applies Edward Said's notion of "Orientalism" to the Balkans.

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Medieval Christian views on Muhammad

During the Early Middle Ages, Christendom largely viewed Islam as a Christological heresy and Muhammad as a false prophet.

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Memoirs Relative to Egypt Published During the Campaigns of Napoleon Bonaparte in the Years 1798 and 1799

Memoirs Relative to Egypt Published during the Campaign of General Bonaparte in the Years 1789 and 1799 (Mémoires sur l'Égypte, publiés pendant les campagnes du Général Bonaparte dans les années 1798 and 1799) was published by The Learned and Scientific Men during Napoleon's Campaign in Egypt in 1800.

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Middle Eastern studies

Middle Eastern studies (sometimes referred to as Near Eastern studies) is a name given to a number of academic programs associated with the study of the history, culture, politics, economies, and geography of the Middle East, an area that is generally interpreted to cover a range of nations including Israel, Lebanon, Palestine, Jordan, Egypt, Iraq, Iran, Turkey, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, and Oman.

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Moorish Revival architecture

Moorish Revival or Neo-Moorish is one of the exotic revival architectural styles that were adopted by architects of Europe and the Americas in the wake of the Romanticist fascination with all things oriental.

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Nesting Orientalisms

Nesting Orientalisms is a concept introduced by Milica Bakić-Hayden, a visiting lecturer at the University of Pittsburgh.

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Occidentalism

Occidentalism refers to and identifies representations of the Western world (the Occident) in two ways: (i) as dehumanizing stereotypes of the Western world, Europe, the Americas, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, and Israel, usually from the Muslim world; and (ii) as ideological representations of the West, as applied in Occidentalism: A Theory of Counter-Discourse in Post-Mao China (1995), by Chen Xiaomei; Occidentalism: Images of the West (1995), by James G. Carrier; and Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of its Enemies (2004), Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit.

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Olivia Manning

Olivia Mary Manning (2 March 1908 – 23 July 1980) was a British novelist, poet, writer, and reviewer.

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Orient

The Orient is the East, traditionally comprising anything that belongs to the Eastern world, in relation to Europe.

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Oriental studies

Oriental studies is the academic field of study that embraces Near Eastern and Far Eastern societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology; in recent years the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of Asian studies and Middle Eastern studies.

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Orientalism

Orientalism is a term used by art historians and literary and cultural studies scholars for the imitation or depiction of aspects in Middle Eastern, South Asian, and East Asian cultures (Eastern world).

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Orientalist

Orientalist may refer to.

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Ornamentalism

Ornamentalism: How the British Saw Their Empire is a book by David Cannadine about British perceptions of the British Empire.

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Other (philosophy)

In phenomenology, the terms the Other and the Constitutive Other identify the other human being, in their differences from the Self, as being a cumulative, constituting factor in the self-image of a person; as their acknowledgement of being real; hence, the Other is dissimilar to and the opposite of the Self, of Us, and of the Same.

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Ottoman decline thesis

The Ottoman decline thesis or Ottoman decline paradigm (Osmanlı Gerileme Tezi) refers to a now-obsolete.

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Palestine (comics)

Palestine is a non-fiction graphic novel written and drawn by Joe Sacco about his experiences in the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in December 1991 and January 1992.

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Political aspects of Islam

Political aspects of Islam are derived from the Qur'an, the Sunnah (the sayings and living habits of Muhammad), Muslim history, and elements of political movements outside Islam.

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Postcolonial literature

Postcolonial literature is the literature of countries that were colonised, mainly by European countries.

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Postcolonialism

Postcolonialism or postcolonial studies is the academic study of the cultural legacy of colonialism and imperialism, focusing on the human consequences of the control and exploitation of colonised people and their lands.

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Princeton Reunions

The Princeton Reunions are an annual college reunion event held every year on the weekend before commencement at Princeton University.

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Robert Irwin (writer)

Robert Graham Irwin (born 23 August 1946) is a British historian, novelist, and writer on Arabic literature.

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Ronald Inden

Ronald Inden is an American Indologist, and professor emeritus in the Departments of History and of South Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago and is a major scholar in South Asian and post-colonial studies.

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Sadiq Jalal al-Azm

Sadiq Jalal Al-Azm (صادق جلال العظم Ṣādiq Jalāl al-‘Aẓm; 1934 – December 11, 2016) was a Professor Emeritus of Modern European Philosophy at the University of Damascus in Syria and was, until 2007, a visiting professor in the Department of Near Eastern Studies at Princeton University.

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Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States

Stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in the United States have been presented in various forms by the mass media in the American culture.

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Steven Emerson

Steven Emerson (born June 6, 1954) is an American journalist, author, and pundit on national security, terrorism, and Islamic extremism.

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Subaltern (postcolonialism)

In critical theory and postcolonialism, the term subaltern designates the populations which are socially, politically, and geographically outside of the hegemonic power structure of the colony and of the colonial homeland.

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Syed Hussein Alatas

Syed Hussein Alatas (سيد حسین العطاس; 17 September 1928 – 23 January 2007) was a Malaysian academician, sociologist, founder of social science organisations, and politician.

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The Arab Mind

The Arab Mind is a non-fiction cultural psychology book by cultural anthropologist Raphael Patai, who also wrote The Jewish Mind.

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The Cleanest Race

The Cleanest Race: How North Koreans See Themselves and Why it Matters is a 2010 book by Brian Reynolds Myers.

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The Snake Charmer

The Snake Charmer is an oil-on-canvas Orientalist painting by French artist Jean-Léon Gérôme produced around 1879.

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The Split of Life

The Split of Life is a series of over 80 mural size oil paintings by Nabil Kanso.

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Tropical geography

Tropical geography refers to the study of places and people in the tropics.

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V. Y. Mudimbe

Valentin-Yves Mudimbe (born 8 December 1941, Jadotville, Belgian Congo) is a Congolese philosopher, professor, and author of poems, novels, as well as books and articles on African culture and intellectual history.

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War elephant

A war elephant is an elephant that is trained and guided by humans for combat.

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Waswo X. Waswo

Waswo X. Waswo (November 13, 1953), is a photographer and writer most commonly associated with his chemical process sepia-toned photographs of India, and also hand-colored portraits made at his studio in Udaipur, Rajasthan.

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Westernization

Westernization (US) or Westernisation (UK), also Europeanization/Europeanisation or occidentalization/occidentalisation (from the Occident, meaning the Western world; see "occident" in the dictionary), is a process whereby societies come under or adopt Western culture in areas such as industry, technology, law, politics, economics, lifestyle, diet, clothing, language, alphabet, religion, philosophy, and values.

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William Jones (philologist)

Sir William Jones FRS FRSE (28 September 1746 – 27 April 1794) was an Anglo-Welsh philologist, a puisne judge on the Supreme Court of Judicature at Fort William in Bengal, and a scholar of ancient India, particularly known for his proposition of the existence of a relationship among European and Indian languages, which would later be known as Indo-European languages.

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William Robertson Smith

William Robertson Smith (8 November 1846 – 31 March 1894) was a Scottish orientalist, Old Testament scholar, professor of divinity, and minister of the Free Church of Scotland.

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Yellow Peril

The Yellow Peril (also Yellow Terror and Yellow Spectre) is a racist color-metaphor that is integral to the xenophobic theory of colonialism: that the peoples of East Asia are a danger to the Western world.

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1978 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1978.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orientalism_(book)

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