Genealogy of the Other: Muslim and its Representation in Orientalism, Anthropology, and Sociology

The Center for Arab Unity Studies published a book titled “The Other Genealogy: The Muslim person and Their Representations in Orientalism, Anthropology, and Sociology” by Dr. Abdul Ghani Imad.

The main concern of this book lies in the attempt to answer the following: Is there really a deep structure, in Chomsky’s language, that contributes to forming the image of the “other” in Western thought? And it possible to reveal the mechanisms of conscious and subconscious work in producing and reproducing speech on the “Muslim” other, and consequently to reveal how the westerner practices an ideology that is subjugated in an Orientalist anthropology and sociology, the old and new ones, thus falling into the trap of an ideology of heterogeneity?

This book is an attempt to study the development of Western representations of the Muslim “other” and to carry out cognitive introspection into the origins and developments of those representations. The book is based on the assumption that representations built by Western culture on the “other”, ever changing and evolving, are still prevailing in various ways. It is thus an attempt to carry out a cognitive excavation and to reveal the sediments of knowledge, images and representations towards the self and the other with all the prejudices and biases linked to therof. It is a research on heterogeneous genealogy, changing and mutating representations, framing the image of the other and framing the self in Western culture.