368 Uoited 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 reiations with East, 293-302; geopolitical identity vis-a-vis Orient, 11, 12; idea} of pure scholarship in, 10, 13; imperialist quality of knowledge in, 11, 293-5, 321, 322; inherits Orientalist tradition, 6, 47-9, 107-8, 264, 275, 284, 285-93, 295-302, 307-21, 322-4, 348; interest in Zionist colonization of Palestine, 294, 348; limited experience with Orient before W.W. Il, 290; Oriental pilgrims from, t92, 342; and Orientalism, 6, 11, 12, 15, 16-17,25,43, Oricntatist 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 Unter gang des Abendlandes, Der (Spengler), 208 Upanishads, 77, 98 utilitarianism, and imperialism, 214— 215 Valéry, 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, #20, 132, 133, 137, 138, 147, 148 Vico and Herder (Bertin), 336 Victoria, Queen, 31 Victory (Conrad), 186 Vie de Jésus (Renan), 146 Vietnam War, 11 Vigny, Alfred-Victor de, 99, 169. Vingt-sept Ans d'histoire des études orientales (Moh!}), 51 Visit to the Monasteries of the Levant (Curzon), 195 Vogiie, Marquis de, 170 Volney, Constantin-Fran¢gois de Chasseboeuf, 39, 82, 168, 169, 170,333 Index 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, Etiot, 169, 195 Weber, Max, 259, 350 Weil, Gustav, 99 Weizmann, Chaim, 306 Welthausen, Julius, 209 Weltgeschichte (Ranke), 208 West: see Europe, United States Westernization, in Istamic world, 278, 279, 308-9, 321-5 Westlake, John, 206—7 Westéstlicher Diwan (Goethe), 19, 5%, 154, 155, 167, 341 Whiston, William, 76 White Man, 226-31, 235-43, 245-6 Whither Islam? (ed. Gibb), 278, 347 Wilde, Oscar, 145 Wilkins, Charies, 78 William of Tripoli, 71 Williams, Raymond, 14, 28, 329, 330 Wilson, Woodrow, 221, 251 Wolf, Friedrich August, #31, 132, 133 Wordsworth, William, 115 World War I, 104, 105, 123, 220, 223, 224, 240, 246, 255-6, 270, 284, 294 Wortd War 11,4, 17, t8,53, 107, 255, 258, 284, 290, 295, 297, 299 Xerxes I, 56, 57 Yeats, William Butler, 120, 230,252, 344 Yemen, 109 Yemen, Southern, 109 Zaghiul Pasha, Saad, 257 Zend-Avesta. 17, 42,76-7,98 Zionism, 27, 22), 270, 278, 286, 294, 301, 303, 306-7, 318,319, 320, 348 Zoroastrianism, 120, 232. See also Zend-Avesta

About the Author Edward W. Said, one of the country’s most distinguished literary critics, is Parr Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. He was Visiting Professor in Comparative Literature at Harvard and a Fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford, and delivered the Gauss lectures in criticism at Princeton in 1977. In 1976 his book Beginnings: Intention and Method won the first annual Lionel Trilling Award given at Columbia University.