Qutb attributed Orientalist prejudice to inherited Crusader instincts
Evidence
‘Thus the orientalist prejudice against Islam is an inherited instinct and a natural characteristic based upon the effects created by the Crusades with all their sequels on the minds of the early Europeans.’ — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 577
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the return of the Crusade-as-origin claim, a theme raised with Muhammad Asad earlier in this same chapter.
Related
- Philological criticisms of Islam’s origins were read as Zionist or Crusader conspiracies (similarity 0.84)
- Islamic Orientalists turned alienation into superiority rather than self-understanding (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalism remains a distinctly racial project anchored in imperial white supremacy (similarity 0.80)
- Orientalist categories can contradict what Muslims would say about themselves (similarity 0.79)
- Islamophobia descends directly from Orientalism’s civilizational divide between Islam and the West (similarity 0.79)
- Orientalism operates as a racial project serving white supremacist empire. (similarity 0.78)
- Oriental knowledge is an instrument of control by divination (similarity 0.78)
- The Encyclopaedia of Islam asked European questions, not Muslim ones, about Islam (similarity 0.78)