Non-Western receptions of foreign cultures reproduce the same reductive dynamics Said attributes to Orientalism.

Evidence

The significance of the above argument lies in the fact that Said no­where carries it to its logical conclusion in the light of what he had stated to be generally true about the reductive dynamics of the reception of one culture by another. As he knows very well, the reception of Christ­ianity by Islam in the East differs little from the account given above. To make this point I shall present the gist of the above quoted passage with the following alterations: — Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm, Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, 46

Categorization

• XREF: This thesis — that the Orient has its own orientalizing of the Occident — is the book’s own later theorized ‘orientalism in reverse,’ the essay’s titular move.

Related

• Said traces imperial conquest back to centuries-old Western habits of representing the Orient (similarity 0.86)
• Cultural misrepresentation is a universal human process, not a uniquely Western vice. (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalism is studied via its internal consistency, not its correspondence to a real Orient (similarity 0.85)
• Orientals themselves have adopted Orientalist frameworks and applied them to their own cultures. (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism reflects the producing culture rather than its putative object (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist representations operate for purposes within specific historical and economic settings (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism’s coherence depends on the permanence of its object (similarity 0.84)
• The West defined itself as the mirror image of the Muslim Orient (similarity 0.84)
• The Occident defines itself as the mirror image of the Orient (similarity 0.84)
• Rebutting Orientalism with reverse essentialism would reproduce the same intellectual failure. (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism functioned as a Western self-projection requiring an invented East as its antithesis (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism functions as a self-enclosed Western text rather than knowledge of an actual Orient. (similarity 0.83)
• Reverse Orientalism mirrors colonial scholarship’s errors while adding secondhand distance from reality. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism’s essentialism hides both historical change and the Orientalist’s interests (similarity 0.83)
• Said’s critique reified Orientalism as a category masking deeper structures (similarity 0.83)