German Orientalism during the Age of Empire-Religion

Abstract

This book fills a major gap in Edward Said’s book Orientalism, which completely overlooked the German orientalists and focused its whole interest on English and French orientalists, making American orientalism their legacy. Some think that Edward Said’s neglect of German orientalists was not based on academic authority and rules, but because bringing in their works from the hundred years which the author of this book deals with, would necessarily negate Said’s argument that orientalism was the tool of colonialism used by the colonial states.