The Dogmatic Islamophilia of Western Islamologists

by Ibn Warraq (April 2010)

Consider the following remarks, and try to guess in what sort of publication they might have first appeared:


  • Intellectual terrorism of writers such as Edward Said.

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    Watt reveals even more disturbing qualities – a mistrust of the intellect and a rejection of the importance of historical objectivity and truth: “This emphasis on historicity, however, has as its complement a neglect of symbols; and it may be that ultimately
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    understand at the beginning of this enquiry, namely, why British Islamicists have been so uncritical of Islam.
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    1929Princeton Theological Seminary1951    Arabic    Koran    missionary[8]
    [9] generous gestures not reciprocated by the Muslims.
    Professor of International Affairs and     Islamic StudiesGeorgetown UniversityPrince Alwaleed Bin Talal    [10] Esposito tried to present Islam and Islamism in western categories thereby hoping to create a more favorable attitude to them in the West.

    “Why not place Islamist movements in the political category of participation, or even democratization?”    [12]
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    [17] Dr. MacEoin was dismissed many years ago from his university post because his ideas were not acceptable to the Saudis funding the Islamic department.[18]

    Western scholars need to defend unflinchingly our right to examine Islam, to explain its rise and fall by the normal mechanisms of human history, according to the objective standards of historical methodology.

    [1] H.A.R.Gibb. Modern Trends in Islam. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1947.

    [4] William Montogomery Watt, Islamic Revelation in the Modern World, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1969, p.116

    [5] William Montogomery Watt, Introduction to the Quran, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press,1977 p.183.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samuel_Marinus_Zwemer : accessed 15 November, 2007.

    [9] In August, 2007,Bishop of Breda, Tiny Muskens: http://www.worldnetdaily.com/staticarticles/article57178.html, accessed 15 November, 2007.

    [10] Martin Kramer. Ivory Towers on Sand. The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Washington, D.C.: The Wsahington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, p.49.

    [11] Ibid.,p.50

    [13] Quoted in Martin Kramer. Ivory Towers on Sand. The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, p.50

    [14] Martin Kramer. Ivory Towers on Sand. The Failure of Middle Eastern Studies in America. Washington, D.C.: The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, 2001, pp.50-51

    [15] All the quotes in the last three paragraphs are from Campus Watch, Esposito: Apologist for Militant Islam, published by FrontPage Magazine, September 3 2002, accessed Nov.30, 2007

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1584954/Extremism-fear-over-Islam-studies-donations.html. Accessed, 29 March, 2010.

    [17] Anthea Lipsett, Concerns over Funding of Islamic Studies, 17 April, 2008.Guardian, available at
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2008/apr/17/highereducation.uk. Accessed 29 March, 2010.

    [18] Daniel Easterman. New Jerusalems, London, 1992, pp.92-93.


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