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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism
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Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism is a book written by scholar and thinker Ibn Warraq.
The book presents a meticulous refutation to the late Edward Said's thesis presented in his book Orientalism which brought about a cultural retrogration of censorship and intellectual paralysis in the Middle Eastern studies community by arguing that the Western examination of the East was inherenttly biased by virtue of its colonial history and two centuries of political domination to carry out an objective study of the Middle East and Islam in particular. This theme argues Warraq has been used by countless of Said's followers in an effort to censor and block, often successfully, critical studies of the Islamic world and its history. Ibn Warraq makes the case that Said’s criticism of the West misrepresents the work of many western scholars and Western civilization as a whole. The author challenges Said work for inadequate methodology, tendentious arguments, and a faulty historical understanding.[1]
Warraq examines the destructive influence of Said's study on the history of Western painting, especially of the 19th century, and shows how Said's supporters have used his arguments to relegate thousands of works of art to the attics of major museums by claiming that paintings that portray themes offensive to Muslims should be censored and taken out of public display.
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