Orientalism
ORIENTALISM
Also by the author
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Beginnings: Intention and Method
ORIENTALISM
Edward W. Said
Routledge & Kegan Paul
London and Henley
First published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
39 Store Street,
London WCIE 7DD, and
Broadway House,
Newton Road,
Henley-on-Thames,
Oxon RG9 1EN
Reprinted and first published as a paperback in 1980
Set in Times Roman and printed in Great Britain by
Redwood Burn Limited
Trowbridge & Esher
© Edward W. Said 1978
No Part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passage in criticism.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Said, Edward W. Orientalism, 1. East – Study and teaching I. Title 950’.07 DS32.8 78-40534 ISBN 0 7100 0040 5 ISBN 0 7100 0555 5 Pbk
Grateful acknowledgements is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Subject of the Day: Being a Selection of Speeches and Writings by George Nathaniel Curzon.
George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Revolution in the Middle East and Other Case Studies, proceedings of a seminar, edited by P. J. Vatikiotis.
American Jewish Committee: Excerpts from “The Return of Islam” by Bernard Lewis, in Commentary, vol. 61, no. 1 (January 1976).Reprinted from Commentary by permission.Copyright © 1976 by the American Jewish Committee.
Basic Books, Inc.: Excerpts from “Renan’s Philological Laboratory” by Edward W. Said, in Art, Politics, and Will: Essarys in Honor of Lionel Trilling, edited by Quentin Anderson et al. Copyright © 1977 by Basic Books, Inc.
The Bodley Head and McIntosh & Otis, Inc.: Excerpts from Flaubert in Egypt, translated and edited by Franscis Steegmuller.Reprinted by permission of Francis Steegmuller and The Bodley Head.
Jonathan Cape, Ltd., and The Letters of T.E. Lawrence Trust: Excerpt from the Letters
Also by the author
Joseph Conrad and the Fiction of Autobiography
Beginnings: Intention and Method
ORIENTALISM
Edward W. Said
Routledge & Kegan Paul
London and Henley
First published in 1978 by Routledge & Kegan Paul Ltd.
39 Store Street,
London WCIE 7DD, and
Broadway House,
Newton Road,
Henley-on-Thames,
Oxon RG9 1EN
Reprinted and first published as a paperback in 1980
Set in Times Roman and printed in Great Britain by
Redwood Burn Limited
Trowbridge & Esher
© Edward W. Said 1978
No Part of this book may be reproduced in any form without permission from the publisher, except for the quotation of brief passage in criticism.
British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Said, Edward W. Orientalism, 1. East – Study and teaching I. Title 950’.07 DS32.8 78-40534 ISBN 0 7100 0040 5 ISBN 0 7100 0555 5 Pbk
Grateful acknowledgements is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:
George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Subject of the Day: Being a Selection of Speeches and Writings by George Nathaniel Curzon.
George Allen & Unwin Ltd.: Excerpts from Revolution in the Middle East and Other Case Studies, proceedings of a seminar, edited by P. J. Vatikiotis.
American Jewish Committee: Excerpts from “The Return of Islam” by Bernard Lewis, in Commentary, vol. 61, no. 1 (January 1976).Reprinted from Commentary by permission.Copyright © 1976 by the American Jewish Committee.
Basic Books, Inc.: Excerpts from “Renan’s Philological Laboratory” by Edward W. Said, in Art, Politics, and Will: Essarys in Honor of Lionel Trilling, edited by Quentin Anderson et al. Copyright © 1977 by Basic Books, Inc.
The Bodley Head and McIntosh & Otis, Inc.: Excerpts from Flaubert in Egypt, translated and edited by Franscis Steegmuller.Reprinted by permission of Francis Steegmuller and The Bodley Head.
Jonathan Cape, Ltd., and The Letters of T.E. Lawrence Trust: Excerpt from the Letters
Cited: in Ingrams, Palestine Papers, 1917-1922, pp. 31-2. 130. Robert Alter, "Rhetoric and the Arab Mind," Commentary, October 1968, pp. 61-85. Alter 's article was an adulatory review of General Yehoshafat Harkabi 's Arab Attitudes to Israel (Jerusalem: Keter Press, 1972). 132. Roland Barthes, Mythologies, trans. Annette Lavers (New York: Hill & Wang, 1972), pp. 109-59. 133. Raphael Patai, Golden River to Golden Road: Society, Culture, and Change in the Middle East (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1962; 3rd rev. ed., 1969), p. 406. , 134 140. Quoted by Irene Gendzier in Frantz Fanon: A Critical Study (New ' York: Pantheon Books, 1973), p. 94. 142. P. J. Vatikiotis, ed., Revolution in the Middle East, and Other Case Studies; proceedings of a seminar (London: George Allen & Unwin, 1972), pp. 8-9. 145. Bernard Lewis, "The Revolt of Islam," in The Middle East and The West (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1964), p. 95. 148. Bernard Lewis, History-Remembered, Recovered, Invented (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1975), p. 68. 152. Originally published in Middle East Journal 5 (1951).Collected in Readings in Arab Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures, ed. Abdulla Lutfiyye and Charles W. Churchill (The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1970), pp. 688-703. 154. Robert K. Merton, "The Perspectives of Insiders and Outsiders," in his The Sociology of Science: Theoretical and Empirical Investigations, ed. Norman W. Storer (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1973), pp. 99136.