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During the course of the century, Western archeology spread across the Middle East and Asia, with spectacular results. In the 1850s, for example, the French government was determined to mount large-scale operations in Assyria and Mesopotamia to showcase its dominance in the region. An archaeological
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in his article "The Roots of Muslim Rage", which was written in 1990. Again, that was seen as a way of accounting for new forms and lines of division in international society after the Cold War. The clash of civilizations approach involved another characteristic of Orientalist thought: the tendency
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and of Islam is a threat to that of the West. The essence of the debate reflects a presupposition for which Orientalism has been criticized by the Orient being defined exclusively by Islam. Such considerations were seen to have occurred in the wider context of the way in which many Western scholars
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attitudes and stereotypes of Asian peoples and cultures, however, which frequently extended to local Jewish and Romani communities since they were also of Oriental origin and widely recognized as such. Scholarship often was intertwined with prejudicial racist and religious presumptions to which the
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2006, p. 75 Giulio Busi, Freie Universität Berlin. Institut für Judaistik - 2006 "According to the famous decision of the council of Vienne (1311–1312), Oxford was chosen as one of four universities (with Paris, Bologna and Salamanca) in which Hebrew, Arabic, Greek and Aramaic were to be
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of Eastern societies. The study of Islam was particularly central to the field since most people living in the geographical area that was termed as the Orient were Muslims. The interest in understanding Islam was fueled partly by economic considerations of the growing trade in the
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was then considered the Orient. However, the use of the various terms and senses derived from "Orient" has greatly declined since the 20th century, especially since trans-Pacific links between Asia and America have grown, and travel from Asia usually arrive in the
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about the East with the concept of "the East" itself. The terms Oriental/Eastern and Occidental/Western are both inclusive concepts that usefully identify large-scale cultural differences. Such general concepts do not preclude or deny more specific ones.
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also developed, and by the mid-19th century, Oriental studies had become a well-established academic discipline in most European countries, especially those with imperial interests in the region. Although scholastic study expanded, so did
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in the 18th and the 19th centuries. When used in that sense, the term often implies prejudiced outsider-caricatured interpretations of Eastern cultures and peoples. That viewpoint was most famously articulated and propagated by
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and was published around 1867. New national museums provided a setting for important archaeological finds, most of which were then bought back to Europe, and they put Orientalists in the public spotlight as never before.
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During the 18th century, Western scholars reached a reasonable basic level of understanding of the geography and most of the history of the region, but knowledge of the areas least accessible to Western travelers, like
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attitudes and interests and by the fascination for the "exotic" East for Mediterranean and European writers and thinkers, and was captured in images by artists, which is embodied in a repeatedly-surfacing theme in the
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in Europe (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam) originated in the Middle East and because of the rise of Islam in the 7th century. Consequently, there was much interest in the origin of those faiths and of
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Various explanations for the change to "Asian studies" are offered; a growing number of professional scholars and students of Asian Studies are themselves Asian or from groups of Asian origin (like
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began to accelerate in the 11th century, such contacts became rarer in Spain. Chairs of Hebrew, Arabic, and Aramaic were briefly established at Oxford and in four other universities after the
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With a great increase in knowledge of Asia among Western specialists, the increasing political and economic involvement in the region, and particularly the realization of the existence of
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to see the region as being one homogenous civilization, rather than as comprising various different and diverse cultures and strands. It was an idea that was taken on more famously by
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The participation in academic studies by scholars from the newly-independent nations of the region itself inevitably changed the nature of studies considerably, with the emergence of
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has come to acquire negative connotations in some quarters and is interpreted to refer to the study of the East by Westerners who are shaped by the attitudes of the era of European
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may be linked with theological institutes, and the study of ancient civilizations in the region may come under a different faculty from that of the studies of modern periods.
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word for "East" (a more common derivation is from one or both of two Anatolian proper names). Replacing one word with another is to confuse historically objectionable
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Vasiliev, Leonid. "Stages of the World Historical Process: an Orientalist's View." Electronic Science and Education Journal: "Istoriya" 3:2, 10 (2012).
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societies and cultures, languages, peoples, history and archaeology. In recent years, the subject has often been turned into the newer terms of
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Lockman, Zachary. Contending Visions of the Middle East. The History and Politics of Orientalism. New York: Cambridge University Press 2004,
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was founded in about 1643. Oxford followed for Hebrew in 1546 (both chairs were established by Henry VIII). One distinguished scholar was
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Said wrote his book, a detail that Said gets wrong. By some, the term "Oriental" has come to be thought offensive to non-Westerners.
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Studies. That reflects the fact that the Orient is not a single monolithic region but rather a broad area, encompassing multiple
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into Latin was completed in 1143, but little use was made of it until it was printed in 1543. It was later translated into other
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Vasiliev, Leonid. "Stages of the World Historical Process: an Orientalist's View." Electronic Science and Education Journal:
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and others based themselves in Andalusia to take advantage of its Arabic libraries and scholars. However, as the Christian
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Wokoeck, Ursula. German Orientalism: The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945. London: Routledge, 2009.
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responded to international politics after the Cold War, and they were arguably heightened by the terrorist attacks of
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led the way and, as with many other ancient cultures, provide linguists with new material for decipherment and study.
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in international relations generally and within the 'West' particularly, which was brought about by the absence of
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Scholarly work was initially largely linguistic in nature, with primarily a religious focus on understanding both
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in scholarship on the Middle East was seen to have re-emerged and risen in prevalence again after the end of the
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Routledge, 2005, pp 40-41; Tanner, J.P., "Ancient Babylon: From Gradual Demise to Archaeological Rediscovery,"
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J. Go, "'Racism' and Colonialism: Meanings of Difference and Ruling Practice in America's Pacific Empire" in
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monarchy. An institutional distinction between East and West did not exist as a defined polarity before the
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as unchanging because of the economic narrowness of village economies and the state's role in production.
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was considered the Occident (the West) and its farthest-known extreme as the Orient (the East). From the
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Knight, Nathaniel. "Grigor'ev in Orenburg, 1851–1862: Russian Orientalism in the Service of Empire?",
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Lexicon Heptaglotton Hebraicum, Chaldaicum, Syriacum, Samaritanum, Aethiopicum, Arabicum, et Persicum
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thesis. That particular idea of a fundamental conflict between East and West was first advanced by
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had traveled to the East and wrote on the modern history and society of the Eastern peoples. The
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of the period, which was to be an ever-more important aspect of the field in the next century.
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of the Middle East over what they considered the intolerant Christian West. Many, including
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Wydział Orientalistyczny UW – Strona Wydziału Orientalistycznego Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
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Symbolic of that type of response to the end of the Cold War was the popularization of the
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was renamed the Faculty of Asian Studies. In 2007, the Faculty of Oriental Studies at
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thinkers characterized aspects of the pagan East as superior to the Christian West in
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in the 7th century established a sharp opposition or even a sense of polarity in the
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Katz, Elizabeth. Virginia Law. Democracy in the Middle East. 2006. September 9, 2006
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produced relatively little in the way of scholarly interchange, the eruption of the
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by Holly Edwards (Editor). Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000 (hardcover,
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followed suit in 2022, also renaming the former Faculty of Oriental Studies as the
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The original distinction between the "West" and the "East" was crystalized by the
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Contending Visions of the Middle East: The History and Politics of Orientalism
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was generally regarded in Europe as a major factor in the relative failure of
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universities, the field of Oriental studies has now been replaced by that of
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The late 18th century saw the start of a great increase in the study of the
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region and by the changing cultural and intellectual climate of the time.
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German Orientalism in the Age of Empire - Religion, Race and Scholarship
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atmosphere, although it began earlier: Bernard Lewis' own department at
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since 1540 (the fifth-oldest regular chair there), and the university's
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had Professors of Oriental Languages at least in the 1570s. In France,
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American Orientalism: The United States and the Middle East Since 1945
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Oriental enlightenment the encounter between Asian and Western thought
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Fleming, K.E. "Orientalism, the Balkans, and Balkan Historiography",
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was renamed the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, and the
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Ninive et L'Assyrie, Consul General Avec Des Essais De Restauration,
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in 1732, is the oldest school of Sinology and Oriental Studies of
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may also account for the hesitation to use the term "Oriental".
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The impact of Edward Said's book on Middle Eastern studies, by
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Volume 1, John Wiley & Sons, 2012, p. 51-52; Pouillon, F.,
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Hebrew to Latin, Latin to Hebrew: the mirroring of two cultures
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is one of the earliest paintings from Western painters in the "
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and Voltaire, praised the high social status of scholarship in
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The Faculty of Oriental Studies at the University of Warsaw
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to the Middle Ages, what is now in the West considered the
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growth in translations of Arabic and Greek texts into Latin
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The Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations
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The Near East: Archaeology in the Cradle of Civilization,
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University Oriental studies became systematic during the
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A Companion to the Archaeology of the Ancient Near East,
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Supporters of "Oriental Studies" counter that the term "
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framing views on the extent to which the culture of the
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The European study of the region formerly known as "the
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close relations between Indian and European languages
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