The Occident defines itself as the mirror image of the Orient

Evidence

Said theorized this master discourse as a process whereby the West, or the “Occident,” defined itself as the mirror image of the Muslim world, which comprised a segment of the “Orient.” See generally Edward Said, Orientalism (Vintage, 1979). — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 1791

Categorization

• DEFINE: Distills Said’s Orientalism thesis into a mirror-image identity construction.
• XREF: Directly underpins the book’s core framework of the Crusader/Orientalist mindset and connects to postcolonial theory generally.