Jihad: Orientalism and knowledgeable ignorance
Sep 20,2022 – JORDAN TIMES / Nedal Al- Mousa The term “knowledgeable ignorance” is used by the authors of a book titled “Why do People Hate America” to refer to […]
Orientalism, Misinformation and Islam
Orientalism, Misinformation and Islam Abû Imân cAbd al-Rahmân Robert Squires © Muslim Answers – Orlando, Florida, All Rights Reserved. Any open-minded person embarking on a study of Islam, especially if using books written in European languages, should be aware of the seemingly inherent distortions that permeate almost all non-Muslim writings on […]
Useful Enemies by Noel Malcolm review – learning from the Turks
This well-judged book, which centres on Western thinkers identifying positive aspects of Ottoman rule, complicates the idea of Orientalism Christopher de Bellaigue Wed 22 May 2019 In 1534 an Ottoman […]
Knowledge in circulation, from East to West
FERHAT KÜÇÜK PublishedSeptember 28, 2018 The notions of East and West were first literally described as geographical directions, but today in the social sciences they are mostly used to depict […]
American travel writing about the Middle East
Sep 27,2018 – JORDAN TIMES – MARWAN M. OBEIDAT From the 1850s through the 1950s, nothing was more vital for the interpretation of the Arab-Muslim Middle East than the traveller […]
From the harem to Salomé: American Orientalism Painting as an Exploration of Changing Women’s Roles in the 19th Century
By Iram Ahmad MD In his 1580 essay, “On Presumption,” French essayist Michel de Montaigne wrote: … It is that I lower the value of the things I possess, because I possess them, and raise the value of things when they are foreign, absent, or not mine… between two similar […]
Orientalists ‘spreading false views on Islam’
A leading Islamic scholar, and a winner of the King Faisal International Prize for Islamic Studies, has slammed orientalists in the West for spreading false information about the religion. Muhammad Mustafa Azmi, who specializes in Hadith studies, said: “Their false and misleading works are now called research but have no […]