Oriental Responses to the West

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Oriental Responses to the West is written by Nasrin Rahimieh and published by BRILL. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 9004091777 (ISBN 10) and 9789004091771 (ISBN 13).

Modern writers and scholars from the Islamic East have represented actual or fictional encounters with the West in a surprising variety of ways. Far from constituting a mono- lithic approach to the West, as Western "Orientalism" often tended to, these writings reveal an interest in and sometimes acute perception of cross-cultural conflict and synthesis. The very difficulties experienced by writers and critics immersed in two or more cultures have led to new creative and innovative forms of response to the West. By shifting focus in East-West relations towards the East, it initiates further interdisciplinary discussions.