Iqbal, German Orientalism and the Making of Modern Mysticism
By Razak Khan This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. I emphasize in it accordingly that neither the term Orient nor the concept of the...
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“40 Years After Orientalism” reflects on the legacies of Edward Said’s seminal text, Orientalism, published in 1978. The aim is to examine the persistence of Orientalism’s groundbreaking contribution to postcolonial scholarship, to discuss the conversations, excavations and critiques triggered by Said’s work, and to think about what it can teach us today. The series is based on the public lecture series and MA seminar, “40 Years After Orientalism – Configurations of Knowledge/Power Today”, held at the Institute of Islamic Studies of the Freie Universität Berlin in Winter Semester 2018/2019.
On Colonial Aphasia in the Study of German Orientalism
By Zubair Ahmad This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Humanists have too often confined their attention to departmentalized topics of research. They have...
Reenchantment: From the Facts of Orientalism to the Sustenance of Storytelling
By Wendy Shaw This article is part of the TRAFO Series “40 Years After Orientalism”. Facts cannot solve the problem of lies. Stories can. The given wisdom of modern positivism...
40 Years After Orientalism
An Introduction to the TRAFO series “40 Years After Orientalism”, Edited by Schirin Amir-Moazami (Freie Universität Berlin). Published in 1978, Orientalism has been a seminal investigation on questions regarding cultural...
