Edward Said's shadowy legacy
Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3885948.ece
Date Written:  2008-05-07
Publisher:  Times Literary Supplement
Year Published:  2008
Resource Type:  Article
Cx Number:  CX9577

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.

Subject Headings

• Academic Fads & Fashions
• Academics
• Colonialism
• Cultural Studies
• Eurocentrism
• History/Arab
• Intellectuals
• Islamic Studies
• Middle East Studies
• Orientalism
• Post-Modernism
• Said, Edward