Islamic Orientalists turned alienation into superiority rather than self-understanding

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• Orientalism becomes national authority when backed by state institutions (similarity 0.85)
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• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (similarity 0.84)
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• Individual Muslim writers are not trapped by the interpretive frame that dominates their reception (similarity 0.84)