Prominent critics of Orientalism have praised scholars deeply complicit in its assumptions.
Evidence
Now, the question to which I have no ready answer is, how can the most acute and versatile contemporary critic of Orientalism praise so highly an Orientalist who obviously subscribes to the entire apparatus of Orientalism’s discredited dogmas? — Sadik Jalal al-‘Azm, Orientalism and Orientalism in Reverse, 69
Categorization
- QUESTION: This unresolved tension in Said’s treatment of Massignon is worth chasing down — what exactly did Said exempt from his critique?
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