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An Unfettered Mind
by Rebecca Bynum
Defending The West: A Critique of Edward Said’s Orientalism
By Ibn Warraq
Prometheus Books, 2007, 500pp.
Ibn Warraq is probably the most learned and articulate Muslim apostate of our generation. He has studied Islam in more depth than any other and his exegetical work on the Koran is unparalleled. Ibn Warraq is concerned with the truth, the truth of how the Koran and Islam came into existence and the truth about Islamic civilization’s interaction with the rest of humanity. In his current book, Ibn Warraq explores the truth about the much maligned Orientalists and colonialists of the Western world and their study and interaction with Eastern world, both Muslim and Hindu, and he specifically critiques Edward Said’s Orientalism which has poisoned the minds of a generation of Middle East scholars against the scholarship of the great Orientalists of the past, especially those of the 19th Century, though Warraq goes well beyond this and surveys the long history of Western scholars’ attitudes and study and artists' depiction of the Eastern world, from the ancient Greeks to the modern day. more...
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