المشاكل المنهجية في نقد الاستشراق Methodological problems in criticizing Orientalism

Abstract

Orientalism is an intellectual movement concerned with the study of the sciences of the East in general and of the sciences of Muslims in particular, and the field of orientalism gather historians and scholars in the history of ideas, religions and languages together of their different curricula. However, what distinguishes these studies is the stereotypical image of Islam that has become entrenched in the mind of European Christians, and which has influenced their curricula.

Conversely, there was a scientific orientation represented by great scientists like Noldke, Julius Flahausen, Goldtzehr, Jack Burke and Maxim Rondonsson.

However, there is a generation of Arab intellectuals confessed their credit for the achievement of hundreds of unidentified Arab texts and brought them to light, but they did not hesitate to confront their studies by criticizing them with scientific criticism in the second half of the twentieth century.

Ideological sparring theses have emerged that have produced a hostile stereotype of this religion.

Another critical stream has also emerged more fertile which concerned Orientalists' depate in their methodological kit used in their studies of Islam