German Orientalists favored text editing while German readers sought broader popular accounts.
Evidence
Schimmel was exceptional in Germany for the numerous popularizing accounts of Islamic matters that she published. Traditionally German scholars have been experts in editing texts. But philology is now out of fashion and the public is hungry for big ideas. German readers have usually gone to translations of books by more accessible Orientalists such as Bernard Lewis for more general accounts of Islam. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 496
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- Orientalists recycled predecessors’ texts instead of observing the real Orient (similarity 0.83)
- Orientalist scholarship claimed universal comprehension of Eastern peoples (similarity 0.81)
- The Orientalist expert becomes the representative Oriental himself (similarity 0.81)
- German Orientalists led the field despite Germany having no Arab empire. (similarity 0.81)
- Many Orientalists wrote directly for Muslim and Arab audiences (similarity 0.81)
- Orientalist texts reveal the metropolitan culture that produced them most deeply (similarity 0.81)
- Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (similarity 0.81)
- Annemarie Schimmel mastered six Oriental languages and fused Lutheran Christianity with Sufism. (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalism operates as a constraint on thought, not a positive doctrine. (similarity 0.80)
- Islamic Orientalists turned alienation into superiority rather than self-understanding (similarity 0.80)
- Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning. (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalism turned scattered testimony into a domesticated, categorical simulacrum of the Orient (similarity 0.80)
- Britain neglected Oriental studies while France and Germany led the field (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalist writing reduces the Orient to an occasion for Western male reverie. (similarity 0.79)
- Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.79)