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	The end of the Orientalist critique - Campus Watch
		In sum, the Orientalist critique would cease to describe a system that, it maintains, the West uses to "manage" its relationship with a despised East, and stand revealed as being a system used by critics to "manage" their relationship with a despised West.
		That is, Orientalist issues were worth addressing not only for their own sake, but because the East-West encounter has been increasingly problematic for the United States and the nations of the East, with explosive political, military, economic, and cultural dimensions for them all.
		While the Orientalist trope of despotism reduces the Easterner to a slavish figure unconcerned with his freedom or rights, the Occidentalist trope of conspiracy reduces the Westerner to a witless puppet manipulated by unseen hands (while simultaneously absolving the Occidentalist of any responsibility in his own political failures).
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/797 (4648 words)

	Orientalist Poetics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Orientalist Poetics is the only book on literary orientalism that spans the nineteenth century in both England and France with particular attention to poetry and poetics.
		Haddad argues that while orientalist poems are often viewed mainly as artefacts of European attitudes towards the East and imperialism, poetic representations of the Islamic Orient also provide an indispensable matrix for the reexamination of such aesthetically fundamental issues as the purpose of poetry, the value of mimesis, and the relationship between nature and art.
		Orientalist Poetics effectively bridges the gap between the analysis of poetics and the analysis of orientalism.
	www.litencyc.com /php/adpage.php?id=2845 (251 words)

	Orientalism revisited by Keith Windschuttle
		He accused the Orientalists of being “Europocentric,” of failing to pay enough attention to Arab scholars like himself, of being obsessed with the past, and of stamping all Orientals with “a constitutive otherness, of an essentialist character.” This essentialist conception of the peoples of the Orient, Abdel Malek wrote, expresses itself through an “ethnist typology.
		Said justifies his decision to omit German Orientalists from his analysis by claiming that German scholars came to the field later than the British and French, and merely elaborated on the work originally done by their European rivals.
		The Germans were prominent Orientalists, yet Germany never went on to become an imperial power in any of the Oriental countries of North Africa or the Middle East.
	www.newcriterion.com /archive/17/jan99/said.htm (4274 words)

	Kaushik Bagchi \| An Orientalist in the Orient: Richard Garbe's Indian Journey, 1885–1886 \| Journal of World ...
		While Western Orientalists approached the Orient of antiquity with due respect, their relationship with the real, modern (nineteenth- and twentieth-century) Orient was embedded in the modern, unequal relationships between Europe and the Orient.
		Orientalist discourse, according to Said, contributed significantly to the construction of Europe's "Other," which was, in the case of the "Near East," or the Islamic Orient, both threatening and enchanting.
		Herder, though not a professional Orientalist, was in a sense the founder of scholarly Orientalism in his country, especially with regard to India.
	www.historycooperative.org /journals/jwh/14.3/bagchi.html (14531 words)

	Meyda Yegenoglu
		She emphasizes over and over again how her accounts are faithful to the truth of the Orient and its women and tries to dismiss the texts written by men as being merely a distorted and an inaccurate representation of the "reality" of the Orient.
		As she claims, it is precisely by employing the discourse of "identification between women of the Turkish and English courts" that Montagu intervenes "in the differentiating rhetoric of Orientalism" (51).
		Montagu's interventions in the orientalist tradition are primarily articulated in a feminist rhetoric and take place in the moments when her text refutes the constructed topos of the enslavement of Turkish women.
	humwww.ucsc.edu /CultStudies/PUBS/Inscriptions/vol_6/yegenoglu.html (11336 words)

	NCAW Autumn 04 \| Greg Thomas reviews Orientalist Aesthetics
		Orientalist Aesthetics adds to these by offering the first comprehensive, deeply contextual study of French engagements with Algeria and Morocco in the later half of the century.
		It complicates our picture of Orientalist art, showing it to be fluid and pervasive rather than a simplistic, unitary academic foil to avant-garde modernism.
		Benjamin argues in his conclusion that it is "the mass of less distinguished artists who most accurately characterize Orientalism as a cultural phenomenon." (281) Masters and masterpieces are pushed to the periphery, with analysis focused more on institutions, discourses, and exhibitions.
	www.19thc-artworldwide.org /autumn_04/reviews/thom_print.html (2951 words)

	The Orientalist : Solving the Mystery of a Strange and Dangerous Life
		The Orientalist takes the reader through some of the great upheavals of the last 150 years, including the demise of the Russian Empire Bolshevik Revolution, the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, both World Wars, the fate of the Russian Emigrees, the upheaval in Germany that led to the rise of Adolf Hitler.
		There are many side adventures in the Orientalist which I found fascinating and informative (the German enclave in Azerbaijan; the "Mountain Jews" of Azerbaijan, the society of Constantinople in the final days of the empire).
		THE ORIENTALIST is the product of some amazing encounters Reiss had, and he presents these with the glee and the awareness of magic we associate with a biographer like Richard Holmes.
	www.golfbugs.com /GolfBookstore/isbn1400062659.html (1090 words)

	Apollo: Orientalist Aethetics, Art, Colonialism, and French North Africa: 1880-1930 - Book Review
		Orientalist Aesthetics--because of its original point of view and extensive primary field research--has emerged as the most substantial new book in this field of colonialist study.
		The author constructs a balanced examination of Orientalist themes, taking into account not only those artists considered progressive, but also those long thought to be highly conservative who were, none the less, in the forefront of the interest in the Near East.
		The Fine Arts Museum was seen by its founders as an important educator that was supposed to champion not only the elite aesthetic of French art, but equally to advocate the importance of a symbiotic relationship that emphasised a 'joining [of] the mother country and her adopted children'.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0PAL/is_501_158/ai_110735922 (1385 words)

	African Studies Review: Orientalist Aesthetics: Art, Colonialism and French North Africa, 1880-1930
		Roger Benjamin has long been working on Orientalist art, and his catalog Orientalism (Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1997) is one of the most accomplished studies of this artistic phenomenon to date.
		Onentalist Aesthetics is his juggernaut, an exhaustive and definitive analysis of French Orientalist art depicting the Mahgreb between 1880 and 1930.
		From Benjamin's perspective, the pictures themselves speak in a formal language familiar to art historians, but the stories they tell reflect the social complexities that were previously the domain of the colonial historian.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4106/is_200312/ai_n9337477 (612 words)

	Orientalism - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		This Orientalizing imagery persisted in art into the early 20th century, as evidenced in Matisse's orientalist nudes.
		The Indian painter Ravi Varma painted several works that are virtually indistinguishable from some Western Orientalist images.
		In the late 20th century many Western cultural themes and images began appearing in Asian art and culture, especially in Japan.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Orientalist (2701 words)

	Orientalism
		The Orient became the studied, the seen, the observed, the object; Orientalist scholars were the students, the seers, the observers, the subject.
		Since the notion of the Orient is created by the Orientalist, it exists solely for him or her.
		Rejection of Orientalist thinking does not entail a denial of the differences between 'the West' and 'the Orient,' but rather an evaluation of such differences in a more critical and objective fashion.
	www.english.emory.edu /Bahri/Orientalism.html (954 words)

	IslamOnline - Contemporary Section (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Orientalist enterprise of Qur’anic studies, whatever its other merits and services, was a project born of spite, bred in frustration and nourished by vengeance: the spite of the powerful for the powerless, the frustration of the ‘rational’ towards the ‘superstitious’ and the vengeance of the ‘orthodox’ against the ‘non-conformist’.
		Insofar as the Orientalist epistemology is unable to concede the possibility of the sacred intervening in human history during the time of the Prophecy, its system of chronology does not cross-sect the Muslim perception of the sacred times but merely runs parallel to it.
		Clearly, at the heart of the Orientalist vision lies the conviction of the non-conformity of the Qur’anic revelation and the racial ‘heresy’ of the Prophet of Islam.
	www.islamonline.net /english/Contemporary/2003/08/Article03a.shtml (4883 words)

	Sir William Jones (1748-1794): The "Good" Orientalist?, Part I
		Recently, I have done some research into the role of the British Orientalists, a group of scholars in the late 18th and the early 19th century who went to India and began to study India's culture, history, languages, and society.
		As we all live in a world in which major colonial empires existed as late as the 1970s [Portugal only relinquished control of Mozambique and Angola in 1974] and where approximately three-quarters of the nations in the world are less than 50 years old, this issue is of obvious importance.
		Whatever differences there were between the Orientalists and the later Anglicists are largely irrelevant as both groups' purpose was to maintain British power indefinitely.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/british_history/18551 (728 words)

	Jake Batsell
		In Said’s view, Orientalist notions of Occidental superiority are based not on knowledge of the Orient itself, but rather on what the Orient lacks as compared with Occidental culture.
		Orientalist perceptions of Western superiority vis a vis the Middle East become even further entrenched, Said contends, when the Arab-Islamic elite "participates in its own Orientalizing" —; that is, when local elites buy into Orientalist cultural imperialism themselves, sacrificing their own Islamic traditions in favor of Occidental mores and principles.
		In response to these Orientalist accounts of Islam’s difficulties with modernity, Bromley offers an alternative theoretical model based on "historical materialism." This approach, heavily Marxist in nature, stresses the importance of examining patterns of specific social relations tied to material distribution in a state’s transition to modern capitalist development.
	www.la.utexas.edu /chenry/pmena/Jakespaper.htm (2287 words)

	Lecture on orientalist, Islamic approach to history scheduled for tomorrow (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		AMMAN "Orientalism and Post-Modernism" is the title of a lecture exploring the divide between orientalism and Islam to be given by Paul Heck at the Fulbright house in Shmeisani on April 2.
		However, scholars notice that the earliest Islamic sources did not intend a simple recording of events of the past but are seen instead as a reflection of the social and ideological concerns of the community at the time, he explained.
		The post-modern development in the orientalist approach and Muslim understanding of history share a common point in that history is not merely a recording of events.
	www.jordanembassyus.org /040198005.htm (424 words)

	The Orientalist by Tom Reiss: Reviews
		The Orientalist records a life so bizarre that it's difficult to believe, despite author Tom Reiss' superb reporting backed by hundreds of endnotes and bibliography entries.
		What is remarkable about The Orientalist is the way borders dissolve, and once-monolithic regimes fragment or melt away.
		Because the details of Nussimbaum's life are so sketchy, Reiss has chosen to pad The Orientalist with material on the history of Russian radicalism, the rise of the German Freikorps, the 1922 assassination of Walther Rathenau and a good deal else besides.
	www.metacritic.com /books/authors/reisstom/orientalist (708 words)

	Orientalism, Misinformation and Islam
		Nevertheless, however worthy their labours may have been, particularly in the historical and and philological fields, they have contributed little to a better understanding of the Muslim religion in the Christian or post-Christian milieu, simply because they have failed to arouse much interest outside their specialised academic circles.
		When used by Muslims, the word "Orientalist" generally refers to any Western scholar who studies Islam regardless of his or her motives and thus, inevitably, distorts it.
		Orientalists and missionaries whose ranks often overlapped were more often than not the servants of an imperialist government who was using their services as a way to subdue or weaken an enemy, however subtly.
	www.islamic-awareness.org /Quran/orientalism.html (2886 words)

	Is the ‘Orientalist' past the future of Middle East studies? - Campus Watch
		On the contrary, they emphasise how ‘the Orientalist enterprise' has produced its ‘most ardent critics'[24] and how this transformed area studies in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
		Said is critical of the Orientalist tradition, in Kramer's view, because he considers it a ‘supremacist ideology of difference, articulated in the West to justify its dominion over the East'.
		Not even State Department ‘Arabists', who were known (and criticised within the US establishment) for their sympathy for the Arab world,[37] could escape the limits imposed by the Orientalist outlook.
	www.campus-watch.org /article/id/1195 (5173 words)

	Al-Ahram Weekly \| Opinion \| Preface to Orientalism (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		These people have now been joined in Iraq by a whole army of private contractors and eager entrepreneurs to whom shall be confided every thing, from the writing of textbooks and the constitution to the refashioning of Iraqi political life and its oil industry.
		Arabs and Muslims have been told that victimology and dwelling on the depredations of empire is only a way of evading responsibility in the present.
		This of course is also V S Naipaul's contribution to literature, that the victims of empire wail on while their country goes to the dogs.
	weekly.ahram.org.eg /2003/650/op11.htm (2655 words)

	Chapter 11
		The orientalist paradigm is essential for the analysis of modern discourse by and about Jews.
		The relationship between theological and orientalist discourse was reformulated within the context of the rise of nationalism and the Enlightenment.
		The orientalist nature of Zionist discourse is expressed through the different dimensions embedded in the concept “negation of exile.” This notion should be considered the core of Zionist consciousness, and embodies the concrete aspects of the Zionist myth.
	www.chass.utoronto.ca /~ikalmar/illustex/Razorijed.htm (6368 words)

	Eastern Standards - Why do so many Arabs love Orientalist art? By Carol Kino (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Besides, for gulf collectors, Orientalist painting may be a less loaded issue, because it generally doesn't depict them.
		In fact, some critics have suggested that Orientalist art satisfies a desire among such collectors to see universalized Arab scenes that commingle objects from many lands—just as the curators of the "Community" show did in the "Objects From Home" section.
		Academic and Orientalist art both had second lives there, long after they were dead in Europe, with pockets of collectors in Beirut and Cairo continuing to buy it and artists adopting the style.
	slate.msn.com /id/2065372 (1541 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		This ambivalence intensified in the nineteenth century with the discovery of the Indo-European group of languages, for in the emerging discipline of philology, Persia was discovered to be linguistically and racially connected to Europe, indeed this region was discoverd to be the origin of the "Aryan" race.
		Its methodology is developed from Edward Said's ground-breaking analysis of Orientalism to investigate the various modes of Orientalist discourse.
		Persian intellectuals at first accepted Orientalist pictures of Persia as a melancholy picture of reality but gradually developed discourses which opposed the power of Western hegemony in general and Western views of Persia in particular.
	dbase.irandoc.ac.ir /00233/00233948.htm (345 words)

	Language Log: Orientalist meets occidentalist
		As part of a recent blog exchange (blogversation?) with Juan Cole, Martin Kramer told this joke, which he credits to Charles Issawi: A Western orientalist goes to Egypt, and strikes up a conversation in Arabic with his taxi driver.
		A Western orientalist goes to Egypt, and strikes up a conversation in Arabic with his taxi driver.
		Gharb = west, but the parallel form istaghrab is a denominal from ghariib (= strange), hence istaghrab = to regard as strange, to be puzzled (lit., to find something ghariib), and the active participle is mustaghrib, which parallels mustashriq perfectly.
	itre.cis.upenn.edu /~myl/languagelog/archives/001891.html (630 words)

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