American Orientalism recruited many prominent Arab-born scholars

Evidence

But not all the recruits have been from Europe. One of the striking features of modern American Orientalism has been the number of prominent Arabs in the field, among them the Syrian Philip Hitti (the author of a once standard general survey, A History of the Arabs (1946)), Aziz Suriyal Atiya (an Egyptian at Utah and author of an important book, The Crusades in the Late Middle Ages), Nabia Abbott (a leading papyrologist), Majid Khadduri, an expert on Islamic law, Muhsin Mahdi (an authority on Arabic philosophy as well as on The Thousand and One Nights), and also Fuad Ajami and Bassam Tibi (both experts on modern Arab society and politics). — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 438

Categorization

• XREF: Undercuts the blanket claim that Orientalism was purely a Western-imperial project, connecting to Irwin’s broader argument against Said.

Related

• American Middle East studies depended on recruited British and European Orientalists (similarity 0.83)
• Said’s critique of Orientalism also suppressed Arab scholars and drew on Arab precursors (similarity 0.82)
• Empire shifting to the US carried Orientalist scholars across the Atlantic with it (similarity 0.82)
• German Orientalists led the field despite Germany having no Arab empire. (similarity 0.81)
• Even positive legal portrayals of Arabs were limited to their past service to Europe. (similarity 0.81)
• British, French, then American Orientalism follows the rise and fall of colonial empires (similarity 0.81)
• Arab critics attacked Said for stereotyping Orientalism and misrepresenting Islam (similarity 0.81)
• Many Orientalists wrote directly for Muslim and Arab audiences (similarity 0.80)
• American Orientalism was a German-influenced latecomer to the field (similarity 0.80)
• Post-war British Orientalism was dominated by right-wing patricians skeptical of Arab nationalism (similarity 0.80)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.80)
• European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus (similarity 0.80)
• American empire inherited and reformulated European Orientalism after World War II (similarity 0.79)
• Major Orientalist scholarship was published in Latin into the twentieth century. (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. (similarity 0.79)