Said's Orientalism | History Assignment

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Said's orientalism although highly criticized is broadly acknowledged as 'ground
breaking ‘as well as 'profoundly influential' in a varied array of disciplines and rests as a
major work. According to Varisco (2017), Said showed great concern with the influence of
the treatise of Orientalism. In his view, when an individual thinks of Islam as well as the
Orient, there are disagreements which one needs to make use of with no information or
understanding that it is not codified. The following essay will evaluate the contribution of
Said’s Orientalism on scholarship focused on Islam as well as the Middle East. The thesis
statement of the essay is “Thus, Orientalism has arbitrarily taken a role as well as has offered
support to modern Islamic and Middle East revitalization.”
For Said, Orientalism acts as a universal Western scholarship of biased outsider
understanding influenced by the approaches of European colonialism. Said contends for a
paradigm shift in Orientalist interpretation and identifications of Islam. Nevertheless, Said
had his share of problems (Fattah, 2019). Firstly, as Malcolm Kerr had indicated that, in
inspiring the entire tradition of European as well as American Oriental scholarships with the
sins of reductionism as well as misrepresentation, whereby Said committed similar mistakes.
Secondly, Said discourse of academic Orientalism has been restricted to the late 19th as well
as early 20th century European learning. Moreover, there have been witnessed extensive
assertions that majority of part scholarship predominantly in the United States had by now
unrestricted the imperialist or the colonialist model of scholarship. Studies have found Said's
acceptance in accepting works of Bernard Lewis to be exclusion by the time of his text.
Moreover, Said further entails historical events which took place till 1977 and had recurrently
accepted his flaws. Furthermore, Warraq had asserted that while considering wide-ranging
and major criticisms, Said had realised that he had on no account of major attention in
considerably less capability for presenting true identities of the Orient as well as Islam
(Rubin, 2015). Furthermore, by 1993, Said had developed as well as modified his notions of

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his book Culture as well as Imperialism. However, Orientalism along with its subject material
had continued to encourage and inspire Muslim responses to Western studies regarding Islam
besides Muslims. In relation to Islamism, many scholars have offered the most inclusive and
wide-ranging literatures of 19 Islamist intellectual as well as activists. In the view of Cronin
(2015), the anthology elucidates clear aspects related to modernism of Islamist scholarships.
Moreover the key concern of anthology relies on the presentation of a distant wide series of
Islamist sermons such as to analyse this courses which is also known as orientalism. Such a
discourse tends to create hindrance to a more distinct accepting of Islamic and Muslim
scholarships as well as which determine the Islam West dialectic. According to Hassan
(2015), understanding the association, logic and contributions of orientalism on Islamic
scholarships would improve knowledge of as well as from apparently confronting ideologies
concepts and civilizations. Considering its effects on modern global sanctuary,
comprehending the knowledgeable, doctrinal as well as applied trends of Islamism, chiefly in
the background of its responses to consistent routes of Orientalism is of significant
scholarship and practical value (Fattah, 2019). In the context of critical conjectures, many
scholars have been chiefly concerned with approaches towards reading, comprehending and
interpreting under the outline of understanding the connection between the reader and the
text. As per studies of Samman and Al-Zo’by (2015), key attention has been given to
independence, principles, views, procedural orientation besides what Said has defined as
'contemporary realities' as well as 'lived experiences’. However, understanding orientalism
and its contribution on Islamic scholarships will always shed light on an issue which Said has
referred as reducing a fat archive to manageable dimensions. However, in relation to
European, the American practice of scholarship tends to be unprejudiced as well as value
impartial which is a subject that is playing significant role in several pertinent discussions.
Moreover, Islam is viewed more and more sympathetically from Western scholars due to the