Since the late 1970s, term Orientalism has been closely associated with Edward Said (d. 2003) and his influential monograph of same name. First published in 1978, advanced a number critiques about discipline “Oriental Studies”, its frequently condescending portrayal depiction Eastern world, complex relationship between knowledge power context Middle East. As revolutionary as Said’s theses have ...

This essay critiques Orientalist constructions of Chinese-Filipinos in British and American fiction, travel writing reportage over four centuries. The Chinese as skinflint entrepreneur is perhaps the oldest stereotype this repertoire, reaching back to Daniel Defoe 1725, bearing common attributes with anti-Semitic modelling Jews Europe. A century later, writers Charles Wilkes William Henry Thome...

In this encyclopedic book entitled (Orientalism, Postmodernism, and Globalism), Brian Turner, the British Marxist philosopher, thinker, sociologist, discusses thoughts of prominent intellectuals modernity postmodernity, and, most famous orientalists in history Orientalism. Turner refutes their opinions regarding role religion societies, ability Islam to be a lever for modernization. After colla...

The question of why Islamic civilization declined, and the theories proposed to provide an answer that constitute a significant topic discussion within field studies. This paper focuses on one advanced deal with this important question, theory which claims ‘the all-embracing law was cause behind civilization’s decline its inability revive’. In effort scrutinize integrity theory, present work an...

This paper discusses the categorization of Quranic chapters by major phases of Prophet Mohammad’s messengership using machine learning algorithms. First, the chapters were categorized by places of revelation using Support Vector Machine and naïve Bayesian classifiers separately, and their results were compared to each other, as well as to the existing traditional Islamic and western orientalist...

the principal problem in studying farabi’s political philosophy is working out the dilemma of his thought, which has adopted three sources: greek political philosophy, iranshahri (persian polis) pre-islamic political thoughts, and islamic courses; who doesn’t accommodate properly in orientalist’s trinary category: greek political philosophy/ fighi shari’at-name/ iranian siasat-name. this articl...