Said conceded his Orientalism arguments had all been made by earlier non-Western critics

Evidence

At bottom, what I said in Orienta/ism had been said before me by A.L. Tibawi (1961, 1966), by Abdullah Laroui (1976, 1977), by Anwar Abdel Malek (1963, 1969), Tala! Asad (1973), by S.H. Alatas (1977a, 1977b), by Fanon 0969, 1970) and Cesaire (1972), by Panikkar (1959) and Romila Thapar (1975, 1978). — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory, 715

Categorization

• QUESTION: Flag the exact retrofit of the acknowledgment list — dates misread as 0969/1970 suggest a pasted bibliography — for later checking against Said’s actual sources.
• XREF: Connects to the Foucault ‘race-struggle’ counter-history motif: the same pattern of drawing on and then disavowing a prior lineage recurs in Said’s strategic handling of his own precursors. — connects to: Guénon’s critique preceded and encompassed Said’s later conclusions about Orientalism. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 283; Said contradicts himself by also crediting the prior critics he dismisses. — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 714; Said’s later work privileges Western-based writers while raging against non-Western societies — Aijaz Ahmad, In Theory: Classes, Nations, Literatures, 848

Broader Connections

• Guénon’s critique preceded and encompassed Said’s later conclusions about Orientalism. #exemplifies (0.82) — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 283