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The Orient that appears in Orientalism, then, is a system of representations framed by a whole set of forces that brought the Orient into…

— Edward Said

Orientalism can be discussed and analyzed as the corporate institution for dealing with the Orient—dealing with it by making statements about it, authorizing views…

— Edward Said

I emphasize in it [my Orientalism] accortdingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the West has any ontological stability; each is…

— Edward Said

“It remains the professional Orientalist's job to piece together a portrait, a restored picture as it were, of the Orient or the Oriental; fragments,…

— Edward W. Said

Occident: The part of the world lying west (or east) of the Orient. It is largely inhabited by Christians, a powerful subtribe of the…

— Ambrose Bierce

“the abandoning of ideological conviction – the modern surrogate for religious belief – or us-versus-them thinking won’t be easy. The experts on Islam who…

— Pankaj Mishra

The sense of Islam as a threatening Other - with Muslims depicted as fanatical, violent, lustful, irrational - develops during the colonial period in…

— Edward Said

“Instead of Orientals being the passive objects of the Western gaze, we must study the West. The way Orientals saw it must be a…

— Hasan Hanafi

The entrenched beliefs many westerners profess about Islam often reveal more about the West than they do about Islam or Muslims.

— Hamza Yusuf

“Modern Orientalism embodies a systematic discipline of accumulation. Far from this being exclusively an intellectual or theoretical feature, it made Orientalism tend fatally towards…

— Edward W. Said

What we argue in the piece is that the headscarf has become a political symbol for an ideology of Islam that is exported to…

— Asra Nomani

“A common error of western commentators who seek to interpret Islamism sympathetically is to view it as a form of localised resistance to globalisation.…

— John Gray