review

  • The Islamic Civilisation

    23 January 2023

    Dr. Mustafa Sibai Reviewed by Abdul Hai “Hand the secular Arab a glass of urine, and tell him that it is wine. He will not only pretend to enjoy it, he will enjoy it.”Abdal Hakim Murad “What did the Muslims and Arabs do for the world?” was the passionate cry of an Arab secularist on…

  • Culture and Imperialism

    29 October 2021

    By  Edward W. Saïd Reviewed by Abdul Hai “They weren’t like us and for that reason deserved to be ruled.”   Edward Said Edward W. Said is a well-known Palestinian-American academic and literary critic. His book, Orientalism, published in 1978, was a ground-breaking study. Orientalism tries to understand how the colonisers studied and analysed their…

  • Orientalism

    7 March 2021

        “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” Orientalism Edward W. Said, Reviewed by Abdul Hai “Arabs, for example, are thought of as camel-riding, terroristic, hook-nosed, venal lechers whose undeserved wealth is an affront to real civilization. Always there lurks the assumption that although the Western consumer belongs to a numerical…

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    Things Fall Apart

    24 February 2021

        “In the name of Allah, the Most Gracious, the Most Merciful” ‘Things fall Apart Chinua Achebe Reviewed by Abdul Hai “Your new-caught, sullen peoples,    Half devil and half child..” The White man’s  Burden Rudyard Kipling “With bullets, blood or death, Better by far defend it” Black man’  Burden H. T. Johnson Rudyard Kipling’s poem The…