Abstract
Abstract Although the term “orientalism” has multiple meanings, this entry focuses on its postcolonial connotation as elucidated by several scholars of Middle Eastern origin, particularly Edward Said and his precursors Abdel‐Malek and Latif Tibawi. Notwithstanding Said's explicit assertion that he intended his work as a humanistic critique, his critics, such as Irwin and Lewis, have accused him of unfairly disparaging the West. Said's view of the world as an interconnected, interdependent, and interactive systems complex resembles the systems thinking in Buddhist phenomenology.
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