Orientalism and preconceived visions

Abstract

The study attempted to show some aspects of Orientalism and the extent of its impact on the intellectual pattern of the Eastern world. Orientalism is generally directed to the East by studying its sciences by analyzing and criticizing them from one end to the bottom. However, the greatest share of his interest focused on the Islamic East more than others, stemming from its Christian intellectual environment. Embodying the ideas of that environment, according to the retrospective history method and the descriptive analytical method, this research was divided into two sections: the authoritarian culture of Orientalism and the cultural dimension of representation (the authoritarianism of representation). Orientalism in representation is a means to achieve its goals, as it studied the East to reproduce it in a manner consistent with Western central intellectual perceptions.