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Neo-orientalism

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Eastern subjects whose self-proclaimed authenticity sanctions and authorizes their discourses. Contemporary neo-Orientalists are not, however, merely 'native informants' or 'comprador intellectuals' . . . but rather Middle Eastern women and men who use their native subjectivity and new-found agency in the West to render otherwise biased accounts of the region seemly more authoritative and objective. Second, in contrast to classical Orientalism’s apparent privileging of philological, cultural, and formalistic concerns over ideological ones, neo-Orientalism is marked by an unapologetic investment in and engagement with the politics of the Middle East."
45:, the two concepts nevertheless share similarities. For example, Neo-orientalism is, like Orientalism, criticised as being "monolithic, totalizing, reliant on a binary logic, and based on an assumption of moral and cultural superiority over the Oriental other," according to Mubarak Altwaiji, Ali Behdad and Juliet A. Williams. Neo-orientalism should thus be understood more as "a supplement to enduring modes of Orientalist representation". 314: 371: 48:
However, Neo-orientalism also maintains distinctive characteristics from its predecessor. According to Behdad and Williams again, "First, whereas classical Orientalists were commonly male European savants, philologists, established writers and artists, neo-Orientalists tend to be ordinary Middle
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Tuastad, Dag (2003). "Neo-Orientalism and the new barbarism thesis: Aspects of symbolic violence in the Middle East conflict(s)".
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is generally found in academic literature to critique Western attitudes to Islam and the Islamic world post
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in its entirety, the present dialogue concerning neo-Orientalism seems to focus on predominantly
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for adding his name to a list of public figures it claims are anti-Muslim extremists.
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Category of modern incarnations of Orientalist thinking
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Index

Orientalist
9/11
classical Orientalism
Orientalism
Maajid Nawaz
Southern Poverty Law Center
Orientalism
critical approach
representations
Eastern Culture
Muslim
Middle East
North Africa
Orientalism
Islamophobia
Critical Theory
"Neo-Orientalist Islamophobia Is Maligning the Reputation of the Prophet Muhammad Like Never Before"
doi
10.1080/0143659032000105768
JSTOR
3993426
S2CID
144367950
"On Neo-Orientalism, Today"
the original
"Ali Behdad and Juliet A. Williams: On Neo-Orientalism, Today"
the original
"I'm A Muslim Reformer. Why Am I Being Smeared as an 'Anti-Muslim Extremist'?"
"A Journalist's Manual: Field Guide to Anti-Muslim Extremists"
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