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United States: Arab world satellite
of, 322-4; ascendancy in East, 3­
4, 11, 17,25, 104, 107,290, 293;
awareness of Orient, 1,2, 11-12,
26,107-8,252-3; cultural rela­
293-302; geovis-a-.vis
Orient,
scholarship
Imperialist quality of
knowledge in, 11,293-5, 321,
322; inherits Orientalist tradition,
6,47-9,107-8,264,275,
285-93,295-302,307-21,
348; interest in Zionist coloniza­
tion of Palestine, 294, 348; limited
experience with Orient before
W.W. II, 290; Oriental pilgrims
from, 192,342; and Orientalism,
6, II, 12, 15, 16-17, 25, 43;
Orientalist confidence of, 46-9,
107-8; popular image of Arab in,
26-7,285-8; role in Near Orient,
2,26-7,294-5,321,322-4;and
Third World, 46-7,104, 107-8,
321
universities, Arab, 322-3
Untergang des Abendlandes, Der
(Spengler),208
Upanishads, 77,98
utilitarianism, and imperialism, 214­
215
Vah'iry, Paul, 250-1, 252, 345
Valle, Pietro della, 58
Varro, Marcus Terentius, 144
Varthema, Lodovico di, 58
Vatikiotis, P. J., 312-14, 350
Vattel, Emer de, 216, 344
Vergleichende Grammatik (Bopp),
135
Verne, Jules, 218
Vico, Giovanni Battista, 4, 25, 53,
117,118,119,120,132,133,137,
138, 147, 148
Vico and Herder (Berlin), 336
Victoria, Queen, 31
Victory (Conrad), 186
Vie de Jesus (Renan), 146
Vietnam War, 11
Alfred-Victor de, 99, 169
Ans d'histoire des etudes
r (Mohl), 51
Visit to Monasteries oj the
Levant 195
Vogue, M _
Volney, Constantin-Franlj:ois
Chasseboeuf, 39, 81,
170, 333
Voltaire, 76-7, 92, 333
Vossler, Karl, 258
Voyage en Egypte et en Syrie
(Volney), 81,333
Voyage en Orient (Lamartine), 88,
111,177-9,341
Voyage en Orient (Nerval), 100,
158, 180--4, 342
Waardenburg, Jacques, 209-10, 268,
343,346,347
Wafd party, 257
Wagner, Richard, 131
Waley, Arthur, 252
Wandering Scholar, The (Hogarth),
245,345
Warburton, Eliot, 169,195
Weber, Max, 259, 350
Wei!, Gustav, 99
Weizmann, Chaim, 306
Well hausen, Julius, 209
Weltgeschichte (Ranke), 208
West: see Europe, United States
Westernization, in Islamic world,
278,279,308-9,321-5
Westlake, John, 206-7
Westostlicher Diwan (Goethe), 19,
51,154,155,167,341
Whiston, William, 76
White Man, 226-31, 235-43, 245-6
Whitherlslam? (ed. Gibb), 278, 347
Wilde, Oscar, 145
Wilkins, Charles, 78
William of Tripoli, 71
Williams, Raymond, 14,28,329, 330
Wilson, Woodrow, 221, 251
Wolf, Friedrich August,-131, 132,
133
Wordsworth, William, 115
World War I, 104, 105, 123,220,
223,224,240,246,255-6,270,
284,294
World War 11,4, 17, 18,53, 107,
255,258,284,290,295,297,299
Xerxes I, 56, 57
Yeats, William Butler, 110, 230,252,
344
Yemen, 109
Yemen, Southern, 109
Zaghlul Pasha, Saad, 257
Zend-Avesta, 17,42,76-7,98
Zionism, 27,221,270,278,286,294,
301,303,306-7,318,319,320,
348
Zoroastrianism, 120, 232. See also
Zend-Avesta
About the Author
An internationally renowned literary and cultural
critic, Edward W. Said is University Professor at
Columbia University. He is the author of twelve
books, including Orientalism, which was nominated
for the National Book Critics Circle
Award.