Back in the days, I used to use this book as a staple when doing my assignments. His words still echo in my head and his words are even more truer as time goes on.
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100% agree with that point. And such a good example and illustration to make that point.
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I got this book recently bc of ur channel, so thank you ❤️ if you have any more book recommendations and reflections from them, most of us are eager to hear them
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Culture and Imperialism is also a great book by Edward Said. One of my favourites
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If ever anyone came to a party after everyone else had left it was Edward Said. The empire was all over by the time he came along. Yesterdays man turning up today. Yawn
2 days ago | 1
Best book on the market now: A History of Muslim Views of the Bible by Martin Whittingham. 👍
3 days ago | 1
Let us see a review of a self critical muslim civilizational book.
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Akhi . There seems to be new Coptic manuscript about Jesus and his disciples found from before he was arrested focuses deeply on Mary Magdalene and internal teachings lots of early Christian writings that do not agree with modern Christianity but line up more with Islam
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Oh Edward Said is the uncle of my professor. He says his uncle was his role model all his life.
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Now read Blackstone Athena Volume 1 And you’ll see Orientalism in a whole new way.
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"So it is not surprising if the religious need, the believing mind, and the philosophical speculations of the educated European are attracted by the symbols of the East—those grandiose conceptions of divinity in India and the abysms of Taoist philosophy in China—just as once before the heart and mind of the men of antiquity were gripped by Christian ideas. There are many Europeans who began by surrendering completely to the influence of the Christian symbol until they landed themselves in a Kierkegaardian neurosis, or whose relation to God, owing to the progressive impoverishment of symbolism, developed into an unbearably sophisticated I-You relationship—only to fall victims in their turn to the magic and novelty of Eastern symbols. This surrender is not necessarily a defeat; rather it proves the receptiveness and vitality of the religious sense. We can observe much the same thing in the educated Oriental, who not infrequently feels drawn to the Christian symbol or to the science that is so unsuited to the Oriental mind, and even develops an enviable understanding of them. That people should succumb to these eternal images is entirely normal, in fact it is what these images are for. They are meant to attract, to convince, to fascinate, and to overpower. They are created out of the primal stuff of revelation and reflect the ever-unique experience of divinity."-The Collective Unconscious Carl Jung "Neuroscientists from the University of California at San Diego have found what they call the God module tiny locus of nerve cells in the frontal lobe that appears to be activated during religious experiences. They discovered this neural machinery while studying epileptic patients who have intense mystical experiences during seizures Apparently the intense neural storms during a seizure stimulate the God module Tracking surface electrical activity in the brain with highly sensitive skin monitors, the scientists found a similar response when very religious nonepileptic persons were shown words and symbols evoking their spiritual beliefs. A neurological basis for spiritual experience has long been postulated by evolutionary biologists because of the social utility of religious belief. In response to reports of the San Diego research, Richard Harries, the Bishop of Oxford, said through a spokesman that "it would not be surprising if God had created us with a physical facility for belief. "-Age of spiritual machine. Ray Kurzweil "But do we have to go to distant worlds to find other kinds of replicator and other, consequent, kinds of evolution? I think that a new kind of replicator has recently emerged on this very planet. It is staring us in the face. It is still in its infancy, still drifting clumsily about in its primeval soup, but already it is achieving evolutionary change at a rate that leaves the old gene panting far behind. The new soup is the soup of human culture. We need a name for the new replicator, a noun that conveys the idea of a unit of cultural transmission, or a unit of imitation. 'Mimeme' comes from a suitable Greek root, but I want a monosyllable that sounds a bit like 'gene'. I hope my classicist friends will forgive me if I abbreviate mimeme to meme. If it is any consolation, it could alternatively be thought of as being related to 'memory', or to the French word meme. It should be pronounced to rhyme with 'cream'. Examples of memes are tunes, ideas, catch-phrases, clothes fashions, ways of making pots or of building arches. Just as genes propagate themselves in the gene pool by leaping from body to body via sperms or eggs, so memes propagate themselves in the meme pool by leaping from brain to brain via a process which, in the broad sense, can be called imitation. "- The selfish Gene.
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orientalism is similar to anti-semite.....its the west's insult to everything that comes from the east
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Start reading about Islam from actual islamic scholars, not those who haven't even accepted it if they had any knowledge and sincerity then they would have accepted the truth.
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Will "Islamic Socialist Democratic governance navigate muslim lands worldwide in future ?! Mamdani @Wallstreet @wall of Dzulkarnain
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'From the beginning of Western speculation about the Orient, the one thing the Orient could not do was to represent itself. Evidence of the Orient was credible only after it had passed through and been made firm by the refining fire of the Orientalist’s work.' ~ Edward Said
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