The West defined itself as the mirror image of the Muslim 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
- XREF: Orientalism is the foundational frame the reader’s other text (Iftikhar) also draws on; direct cross-link for the global-synthesis project.