Edward Said, the Christian Palestinian academic, put forward the idea that Western academics, explorers, artists and writers had over the centuries created a self-defining delusion, an innately prejudiced method of thinking about the Arabs and Islam. They had collectively built up an image of the East designed to belittle, pacify and feminise it, which would legitimise its cultural and political domination by the West. In short, he argued that Western historians have only been gathering knowledge in order to conquer. Strange how this resonates with current realities...
Posted on: Thu, 08 Jan 2015 01:50:57 +0000
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