After orientalism : : critical perspectives on western agency and eastern re-appropriations / / edited by François Pouillon, Jean-Claude Vatin.

• Superior document: Leiden Studies in Islam and Society, Volume 2
• Author: Colloque "L'orientalisme et après? - Méditations, appropriations, contestations"
• TeilnehmendeR: Pouillon, François,; Vatin, Jean-Claude,; Colloque "L'orientalisme et apreÌ€s? - Meditations, appropriations, contestations" (2011 : Paris, France)
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden, Netherlands : : BRILL,, 2015.; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Series: Leiden studies in Islam and society ; Volume 2.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (303 p.)
• Notes: Includes index.

The debate on Orientalism began some fifty years ago in the wake of decolonization. While initially considered a turning point, Edward Said’s Orientalism (1978) was in fact part of a larger academic endeavor – the political critique of “colonial science” – that had already significantly impacted the humanities and social sciences. In a recent attempt to broaden the debate, the papers collected in this volume, offered at various seminars and an international symposium held in Paris in 2010-2011, critically examine whether Orientalism, as knowledge and as creative expression, was in fact fundamentally subservient to Western domination. By raising new issues, the papers shift the focus from the center to the peripheries, thus analyzing the impact on local societies of a major intellectual and institutional movement that necessarily changed not only their world, but the ways in which they represented their world. World history, which assumes a plurality of perspectives, leads us to observe that the Saidian critique applies to powers other than Western European ones — three case studies are considered here: the Ottoman, Russian (and Soviet), and Chinese empires. Other essays in this volume proceed to analyze how post-independence states have made use of the tremendous accumulation of knowledge and representations inherited from previous colonial regimes for the sake of national identity, as well as how scholars change and adapt what was once a hegemonic discourse for their own purposes. What emerges is a new landscape in which to situate research on non-Western cultures and societies, and a road-map leading readers beyond the restrictive dichotomy of a confrontation between West and East. With contributions by: Elisabeth Allès; Léon Buskens; Stéphane A. Dudoignon; Baudouin Dupret; Edhem Eldem; Olivier Herrenschmidt; Nicholas S. Hopkins; Robert Irwin; Mouldi Lahmar; Sylvette Larzul; Jean-Gabriel Leturcq; Jessica Marglin; Claire Nicholas; Emmanuelle Perrin; Alain de Pommereau; François Pouillon; Zakaria Rhani; Emmanuel Szurek; Jean-Claude Vatin; Mercedes Volait

Table of Contents

Front Matter / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin -- Orientalism, Dead or Alive? A French History / François Pouillon -- The Real Discourses of Orientalism / Robert Irwin -- The Invention of Islamic Law: A History of Western Studies of Islamic Normativity and Their Spread in the Orient / Léon Buskens and Baudouin Dupret -- The Forbidden Orient! Endo-Exoticism and Anti-Anthropological Nationalism in the Writings of Some Contemporary Moroccan Intellectuals / Zakaria Rhani -- Between Tolerance and Persecution: North Africans on North African Jewish History / Jessica M. Marglin -- “It is Good to Know Something of Various Peoples’ Ways of Life” / Olivier Herrenschmidt -- The Ottoman Empire and Orientalism: An Awkward Relationship / Edhem Eldem -- “Go West”: Variations on Kemalist Orientalism / Emmanuel Szurek -- Some Side Effects of a Progressive Orientology: Academic Visions of Islam in the Soviet South after Stalin / Stéphane A. Dudoignon -- Minority Nationalities in China: Internal Orientalism / Elisabeth Allès -- The Museum of Arab Art in Cairo (1869–2014): A Disoriented Heritage? / Jean-Gabriel Leturcq -- A Genealogy of Egyptian Folklore: Ahmad Amîn as a Reader of Edward Lane / Emmanuelle Perrin -- Mohamed Galal (1906–1943): A Pioneering Egyptian Anthropologist / Nicholas S. Hopkins -- Italian Colonial Knowledge and Identity-Shaping in Libya: A Dual Instrumentalization of Endogenous Anthropological Knowledge / Mouldi Lahmar -- Arab Receptions of the Arabian Nights: Between Contemptuous Dismissal and Recognition / Sylvette Larzul -- The Invention of the Moroccan Carpet / Alain de Pommereau -- Creative Differences, Creating Difference: Imagining the Producers of Moroccan Fashion and Textiles / Claire Nicholas -- Middle Eastern Collections of Orientalist Painting at the Turn of the 21st Century: Paradoxical Reversal or Persistent Misunderstanding? / Mercedes Volait -- After Orientalism: Returning the Orient to the Orientals / Jean-Claude Vatin -- List of Contributors / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin -- Index / François Pouillon and Jean-Claude Vatin.