Eurocentrism is criticized in many academic fields, such as International Relations, History, and other social science fields. Over the last decades, numerous scholars demonstrated relationships between inequalities Eurocentric approaches towards regional studies. Many whose origins are from Middle East have cited postcolonial literature, Said’s criticism of Orientalism, examples dominant Euro-...

this paper examines edward said’s views on music and its connection with key concepts such as orientalism and worldliness in his writings. it is suggested that to see the importance of classical western music as a key component of western culture in said’s work, one has to take into account the centrality of culture in his critical views and the stress he puts on its complicity with western imp...

This essay focuses on the Victorian Orientalist perspective. And cross-culture is shown by decanters. Victoria Orientalism shows influence of tropes and ideas. Firstly, this article expands interaction between Chinese Export Ceramics in traditional function cultural connotation ceramics. then it overviews designer William Burges his ceramics (Chinoiserie) as a representation collection aestheti...

orientalism, as a phenomenon, has a long record in the west; and the orientalists are also varied in their motivations. the orientalists have attempted throughout the history to make believe that the prophet of islam had not been a prophet and that the qur’ān is a human achievement adopted from the torah, gospel, etc. to prove their claim, they have alluded to some texts in the sunnī sources, o...

This study tries to critically unravel the way Islam is represented in western discourse through establishing the relationship between language and ideology, the forms it takes and its potential effect. To that end, headlines from widely circulated print media of the west including the Independent, the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, and The Times from January 1, 2008 to December 30, 2012 w...

This study tries to critically unravel the way Islam is represented in western discourse through establishing the relationship between language and ideology, the forms it takes and its potential effect. To that end, headlines from widely circulated print media of the west including the Independent, the New York Times, the Herald Tribune, and The Times from January 1, 2008 to December 30, 2012 w...

The historiography concerning Medieval Christian Muslim-Relations over the past sixty years has been shaped by two important books: Norman Daniel’s Islam and West (1960) Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978). Each of these works made significant contributions to field, but each also had serious methodological limitations. Both assumed reinforced a conceptual divide between an imagined Muslim East. O...

A relatively unknown facet of Central European Orientalism becomes manifest when encountering the epistemological heritage historical experiences Ismaelite community in Medieval Hungary. Accordingly, hegemonic themes Hungarian historic fiction about this Muslim minority range from being speculative/profiterring arms dealers. Such patterns span across entire trajectory literature. This paper int...