Erdal Kurğan

Beyond the Colonial Lens: A Critical Assessment of Orientalism, Colonialism and Imperialism in the 19th-Century Ottoman Arab Provinces

The exploitation of the non-western world by western powers was a multidimensional process that established political, economic, and, crucially, epistemic dependence. Through the ‘civilizing mission’ and Orientalist discourse, the West legitimized its colonial order by framing the ‘other’ as inherently backward. While...