Orientalism and Conspiracy

Arndt Graf is Professor of Southeast Asian Studies at the University of Frankfurt. Previously he taught at Universiti Sains Malaysia in Penang and at the Asia-Africa-Institute of the University of Hamburg. He has also held visiting positions at Cornell University, the State Islamic University Syarif Hidayatullah in Jakarta and the University of La Rochelle. He has published widely, mainly on rhetoric, media and communication in Southeast Asia. Schirin Fathi is Assistant Professor in the Asia-Africa Institute at the University of Hamburg. Her publications include Jordan - An Invented Nation?: Tribe-State Dynamics and the Formation of National Identity and the Lexikon des Nahostkonflikts. She has further published and taught on issues relating to the Middle East conflict and democracy. Ludwig Paul is Professor of Iranian Studies at the University of Hamburg. His main areas of research include Iranian linguistics and the history of Persian. He is the author of Persian Origins: Early Judaeo-Persian and the Emergence of New Persian as well as numerous articles on Iranian linguistics and cultural studies.

• Preface- Arndt Graf, Schirin Fathi and Ludwig PaulSadik al-Azm - Speaking Truth to Power- Stefan WildSadik al-Azm- Gernot RotterI. THEORETICAL APPROACHESChapter 1: Orientalism and Conspiracy- Sadik al-AzmChapter 2: Occidentalism as the Political Unconscious in the Literary Construction of the Other- Lorenzo CasiniChapter 3: Edward Said and Bernard Lewis on the Question of Orientalism: A Clash of Paradigms?- Mohd Hazim ShahII. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 4: An Orientalist Mythology of Secret Societies- Robert IrwinChapter 5: A Cultural Sense of Conspiracies? The Concept of Rumour as Propaedeutics to Conspiracism- Karin HörnerChapter 6: Political Culture, Political Dynamics, and Conspiracism in the Arab Middle East- Matthew GrayIII. CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSESChapter 7: Polemics on 'Orientalism' and 'Conspiracy' in Indonesia: A Survey of the Public Discourse of JIL versus DDII (2001-2005)- J.M. MusliminChapter 8: Structural Orientalism, Contested Orientalism, Post-Orientalism: A Case Study of Western Framings of ‘Violence in Indonesia’- Arndt GrafChapter 9: memri.org - a Tool of Enlightenment or Incitement?- Schirin FathiChapter 10: The Tragedy of Iblis- Sadik al-AzmAnnexPersonal bibliography of Sadik Jalal al-Azm- Tanja Strube/Karin HörnerNotes on the Authors