Connexions Library: Middle East FocusWebsite
2009
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Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on the Middle East.
Edward Said's shadowy legacyTricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate
Irwin, Robert
Article
2008
Times Literary Supplement
So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.