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Islam and Romantic Orientalism: Literary Encounters with the Orient by Mohammed Sharafuddin (Paperback, 1996)

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Product Description : Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyranny unreason and immorality destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized WestThis book takes a fresh look at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement explored in Edward Saids classic work Sharafuddin acknowledges wide areas of truth in Saids thesis however he argues that in the work of Southey Byron Moore and Landor who began their careers under the sign of the French Revolution and declared their independence both from political tryanny and from national selfsafisfaction the world of Islam appears not just as an antithesis to the world of European civilization but as an alternative cultural reality with its own values

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This debate on Orientalism looks at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement explored in Edward Said's classic work. The author acknowledges wide areas of truth in Said's thesis; however, he argues that in the work of Southey, Byron, Moore and Landor, who began their careers under the sign of the French Revolution and declared their independence both from political tyrrany and from national self-satisfaction, the world of Islam appears not just as a antithesis to the world of European civilization but as an alternative cultural reality with its own values.