Tibawi saw Arab scholars of the Orientalist mode as culturally alienated

Evidence

Tibawi considered Arabs and Muslims working within the Orientalist mode to be ‘alienated individuals, denationalized and deculturalized, who try to live in two worlds at the same time, but who are at peace in neither’. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 585

Categorization

• XREF: Recalls the ‘double consciousness’ critique from W.E.B. Du Bois and the in-between figure of V.S. Naipaul’s ‘The Mimic Men’ — comparable alienation accusations in postcolonial writing.

Related

• Said’s critique of Orientalism also suppressed Arab scholars and drew on Arab precursors (similarity 0.80)
• Post-war British Orientalism was dominated by right-wing patricians skeptical of Arab nationalism (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism’s intent was critique, not affirmation of antithetical identities (similarity 0.79)
• Racialized ‘national mind’ discourse survives only for Islam and Arabs (similarity 0.79)
• Orientalism is a differentiated analysis, not a blanket attack on the West (similarity 0.79)
• Centuries of Orientalist scholarship have functioned as domination and violence (similarity 0.78)