Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
by Ibn Warraq
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Author: Ibn WarraqEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2007-10-23
ISBN: 1591024846
Number of pages: 500
Publisher: Prometheus Books
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Book Review: Said said it wrongly
Summary: 5 Stars
The author is an apostate Muslim from Pakistan living in Europe. He writes with scholarship and erudition to demolish the postmodernism of the liberal Palestinian Christian Said. In his Orientalism Said dismissed the scholarship of all Western orientalists as corrupted by imperialist motives. The author shows this is not the case. The scholars were out to discover the truth about the Orient, to understand not to exploit. He accuses Said of encouraging the modern Muslim victim culture. He demolished the myths of a tolerant Islam. In Spain Jews were persecuted, killed and hounded out. Islam does not promote understanding of other cultures nor scholarship on matters not Islamic. He sees Islamic anti-semitism as rooted in Mohammed, not in Zionism. He is appreciative of missionaries like Lull and Carey though strangely silent on the anti-slavery of the Clapham Sect. He tells us that the Triangular Trade enslaved 11 million Africans but Arab traders enslaved 17 million Africans and also Europeans. Highest prices were for eunuchs as only about 10% survived the operation. This book is an indictment of Said and of Islam. He sees the root cause of Islamic fundamentalism is Islam.
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