Title: L'orientaliste dans le miroir de la litterature Arabe
Abstract: For readers who have no French a brief indication of the content may be of value: In his book Orientalism (1979) Edward Said holds Western orientalism responsible for what he believes to be a distorted European picture of the East. His argument is based on his analysis of the lives and work of orientalists. In the paper that follows it is not the orientalist of real life that concerns the writer, but the orientalist as he appears in two works of Arabic fiction. First and foremost, she reflects on the orientalist as portrayed by the Egyptian author AAli Pasha Mubarak (1823-93) in his 'Alam al-Din, a lengthy didactic work of fiction, which takes its title from the name of an Azharite sheikh. She then draws attention to a more recent and modified
Publication Year: 1982
Publication Date: 1982-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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