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 | #1829999 in Books |  2006-11-02 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.22 x1.32 x6.32l,1.43 | File type: PDF | 376 pages

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||5 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| A Response to Edward Said|By Martin Asiner|DANGEROUS KNOWLEDGE is really a book of two parts. In the first, Robert Irwin gives an overview of Orientalism. This is no easy feat since the term itself is unfamiliar to even otherwise well-educated Americans. The term does not lend itself to ready definition since it implies a focus on the Orient. Irwin does not limit Orientalis|From Publishers Weekly|Starred . Almost 30 years ago, in his classic Orientalism, the late cultural critic Edward Said published a scathing denunciation of Oriental studies, blaming the field for the rise of Western imperialism and racist views a

The publication of Edward Said’s hugely influential Orientalism in 1981 called into question the entire history of the Western study of Islamic culture, condemning this scholarly tradition as one that presented inaccurate and deliberately demeaning representations of Islamic peoples and institutions—so much so that the words "Oriental" and "Orientalist" have come to take on the most negative connotations.

But what is Orientalism, and who were the Orienta...

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