| Book Title | Jihad Beyond Islam |
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Jihad Beyond Islam Gabriele Marranci
JIHAD BEYOND ISLAM
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Said’s book Orientalism (1978) has played an involuntary role in this essen- tialization process.
Said’s complex critique of Western scholarship on the ‘Orient’ and Islam, in particular when focusing on literature and art, has too often been reduced to a Manichaean division.
On the one hand, there are the Orientalists, the scholars who being in love with colonialism would retain a bias against Islam, on the other the anti-Orientalists, who would claim to represent Islam by respecting the real meaning (Milton-Edwards 2002).
If we observe the social and political discussion available on contemporary jihad, we can see that this has produced two ‘schools of thought’, whose members, through their reciprocal denigrating cliche, have been termed neo-Orientalists and Apologists.
So, following such a Manichaean division (cf. Sadowski 1993; Tuastad 2003), those suggesting that Islam leads to extremism have been clas¬ sified as neo-Orientalists by those who deny that extremists are real Muslims; the neo-Orientalist has claimed that this latter position was nothing other than apologetic.
Notwithstanding their irreconcilable positions and arguments, both the ‘neo-Orientalist’ and ‘apologist’ share an essentialistic view of Islam.
Let me say that I reject this distinction as useless for social scientific research for it is produced by political interests dealing with the Middle East crisis and, in particular, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
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