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A read is counted each time someone views a publication summary such as the title, abstract, and list of authors, clicks on a figure, or views or downloads the fulltext. Dabashis work picks up where edward saids orientalism left off. Said traced the origin of the power of representation and the normative agency that it entails to the colonial hubris that carried a. In this fascinating and prodigious work, hamid dabashi offers a compelling analysis of the various phases and modes of orientalism and persuasively demonstrates the mutations in the evolving modes of knowledge production about islam and the middle east.
Edward said may have downplayed the effect of terrorism in shaping. Knowledge and power in time of terror dabashi, hamid on. Knowledge and power in a time of terror hamid dabashi on. The combined structure of power and knowledge, of law and literature, of. In art history, literature and cultural studies, orientalism is the imitation or depiction of aspects in. Orientalism in the age of colonial dissolution postcontemporary. Early and contemporary constructions of islam and the muslim world.