Wednesday, June 16, 2004
Buruma v. Lewis.
The co-author of Occidentalism takes a crack at the world's leading Orientalist. Ian Buruma on the two minds of Bernard Lewis (New Yorker 6.14.04).
Copyright © 2004 by Philocrites | Posted 16 June 2004 at 7:20 PM
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2 comments:
Melanie:
June 18, 2004 06:00 PM | Permalink for this comment
Careful on this, Chris. The arabists I know don't consider Lewis the authority that the secular press makes him. Post 9/11, I went to several of them and asked for a reading list. They pointedly told me to avoid Lewis.
Philocrites:
June 18, 2004 06:59 PM | Permalink for this comment
Ah, but isn't "orientalist" a term of derision? Anyone who followed the link to Buruma's essay surely wouldn't conclude that Lewis is the go-to guy if you want to understand the contemporary Muslim world.
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