"Defending the West: A Critique of Edward Said's Orientalism" by Ibn Warraq (Repost)

This is the first systematic critique of Edward Said's influential work, "Orientalism", a book that for almost three decades has received wide acclaim, voluminous commentary, and translation into more than fifteen languages.

An extended appendix reconsiders the value of 18th- and 19th-century Orientalist scholars and artists, whose work fell into disrepute as a result of Said's work.

Contents
PREFACE
PART 1: EDWARD SAID AND THE SAIDISTS
PART 2: THE THREE GOLDEN THREADS AND THE MISAPPREHENSIONS OF EDWARD SAID
1. Three Tutelary Guiding Lights
2. Classical Antiquity
3. Early Christianity to the Seventeenth Century
4. Indian Orientalists
5. Western Archaeologists
6. Empire and Curzon
7. Edward Said and His Methodology
8. The Pathological Niceness of Liberals, Antimonies, Paradoxes, and Western Values
PART 3: ORIENTALISM IN PAINTING AND SCULPTURE, MUSIC AND LITERATURE
9. Orientals as Collectors
10. Painting and Sculpture
11. Occidental Influence on Eastern Art
12. Nineteenth-Century Orientalist Art
13. Painters as Writers
14. John Frederick Lewis
15. Hegel and the Meaning, Significance, and Influence of Dutch Genre Painting
16. Charles Cordier: Orientalist Sculptor
17. Religion, Piety, and Portraits
18. Oriental and African American Orientalists
19. Orientalism and Music
20. Literature and Orientalism
CONCLUSION
APPENDIX
NOTES
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEX