Orientalist discourse frames Westerners and Orientals as absolute binary opposites.

Evidence

This chapter examines the period immediately before the formal emergence of modern Islamophobia on September 11, 2001. This era witnessed the rearticulation of the Orientalist binary that pitted Islam and the Middle East—imagined as one monolithic civilization—against the West, a geopolitical theory known as a “clash of civilizations.” The theory became an immensely influential essay-turned-book by Harvard University political scientist Samuel P. Huntington. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 217 (#exemplifies, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Western civilization discourse was built on a constructed binary of superiority and inferiority; The clash of civilizations theory rearticulated the Orientalist binary of Islam versus the West. — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 217; The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. (+1 more)

Related

• The clash of civilizations theory rearticulated the Orientalist binary of Islam versus the West. (similarity 0.90)
• The West-Orient binary found its first legitimised modern manifestation in Orientalism (similarity 0.90)
• The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. (similarity 0.88)
• The West defined itself as the mirror opposite of the Muslim world. (similarity 0.88)
• A shared East-West binary grounds vast and diverse bodies of thought (similarity 0.88)
• Huntington repackaged Orientalist binaries into a new lexicon of civilizational clash. (similarity 0.87)
• Orientalism imagined Muslims as a monolithic Arab or Middle Eastern racial bloc. (similarity 0.86)
• Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West (similarity 0.86)
• The Middle East itself is a product of Orientalist construction. (similarity 0.85)
• Western civilization discourse was built on a constructed binary of superiority and inferiority (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist assumptions restrict non-Western history to relations with the West (similarity 0.85)
• The clash of civilizations thesis asserts Western values are alien to Islamic societies. (similarity 0.85)
• The Occident-Orient binary describes contested interpretations, not real monolithic blocks (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism is a political doctrine arising from Western dominance (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism defines the Orient as innately resistant to change and modernity (similarity 0.85)

Broader Connections

• Western civilization discourse was built on a constructed binary of superiority and inferiority #expands (0.90)
• The clash of civilizations theory rearticulated the Orientalist binary of Islam versus the West. #exemplifies (0.85) — Khaled A. Beydoun, American Islamophobia_ Understanding…, 217
• The West required the Rest as a conceptual opposite to define itself. #expands (0.85)