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Orientalists and Their Role in Arabic Literature
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Orientalism, as a science that came into being and in the field of knowledge and science, assumed a great position in Western circles, as Western scholars directed their direction towards it, and they paid great attention to it, because it helped them in the civilizational advancement of their Western nation, which was suffering from ignorance, poverty and moral corruption. When Western scholars who were interested in Orientalism realized that it is the science that helps them understand Arab and Islamic civilization, and everything related to it since its existence and its succession with the succession of ages and times, they turned to what is known as the Orientalists who paved the way for their research and studies to identify the Islamic world with its peoples, religions, beliefs, customs and history, and literature and sciences and others. Thus, the Orientalists carried the torch of Orientalism, and for the sake of achieving its goals and reaching them, they harnessed great capabilities beyond imagination. These researches and studies came according to organized ideas and approaches, followed by orientalists in order to achieve their success that dazzled the public and the private, in the various fields that they addressed, presented and treated, either in a positive or negative manner. Moreover, this science, which the world knew in the name of Orientalism, did not, in its entirety, follow a single approach by stripping it of whims, but rather came in most of it far from scientific integrity and objectivity, despite the presence of some Orientalists who followed it in their studies, as most of the Orientalists whose studies on the Arab and Islamic East were full with fanaticism and hatred, tainted by ambiguity and characterized by forgery, fabrication and distortion, because they are unable to understand the Arab-Islamic civilization in all the meaning of the word. Therefore, although Orientalism harmed many Islamic and Arab aspects, and proved its existence as a science that revealed the Arab and Islamic oriental civilization, it was often characterized by some stumbling blocks that revealed that it was a science that served Western interests only, and paved the way for their realization in a world distinguished from the rest of the other worlds by civilization and religion. History, and various sciences. He remained immortal despite the decline and weakness that befell him, which was the reason for the establishment of Western civilization, and its isolation from the rest of the nations in development, prosperity, and progress in all fields.
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