orientalism

Question 1

what is orientalism?

Answer 1

an expression invented by the Europeans/Westerners to identify studies related
to Orientals: their people, history, religions, languages, social situations, their countries and territories, including their treasures and riches they possess and their civilizations.

Question 2

types of orientalists

Answer 2

1. Priests and Church Officials: attacking Islam
2. Governments officials: in charge of colonization to the Orient.
3. Orientalists with genuine academic agenda

Question 3

examples

Answer 3

Bernard Lewis, American scholar, Orientalist (Islam and the West)

Zigrid Hunke (German Orientalist) (Arab’s sun over the West)

Edward Said (Orientalism) Palestinian Palestinian-American professor