Document Type : Research Paper

Author

• Ahmad Kalateh Sadati

Abstract

This paper emphasizing the cultural and historical contexts of Islamic societies, wants to evaluate the issue of Occidentalism. Findings show that Occidentalism is a discursive construction against Orientalism, which has two critical and noncritical forms. Critical Occidentalism is the discourse of some eastern societies, especially Muslim societies, through which they pursuit their identity by making ‘otherness’. So, critical Occidentalism is different from Orientalism and one of these important differences is that Occidentalism is a defensive construct not hegemonic. The subject of critical Occidentalism goes beyond the issues like identical and national defense against imperialism and colonialism, and is related to the axiological foundations of Islam against the west. Since west now is the director of the science and knowledge domain, the main question is that, in this situation, can a different and antithetical discourse be produced? The answer, is problematic and of course negative. Generally, Occidentalism in Islamic world, or critical and defensive Occidentalism, is on an unwieldy and difficult path, and should be developed based on its epistemological strategies. This approach which is the result of the birth of historical unconscious in Islamic world, should, preserving the ethics of resistance, uses the scientific instruments based its context to develop the Occidentalism

Keywords

• Occidentalism
• Orientalism
• others making
• Islam
• critical Occidentalism