KnowraOriental studiesLinked fromLinked fromThe 28 pages that link to Oriental studies, each with the reason it gives.All 28Related 14Narrower topic 5Compared with 9Islamic historiographyCompared with: Modern scholarship has debated how external frameworks shaped interpretations of Muslim historical writing.Edward SaidCompared with: Said criticized how parts of this scholarly tradition represented the East through imperial assumptions.IsnadCompared with: Modern Western debates about hadith have challenged how much historical evidence isnads provide.One Thousand and One NightsRelated: European translations and illustrations helped form images of an imagined “Orient” around the tales.Hadith studiesCompared with: Modern Western scholarship has often questioned hadith origins using approaches distinct from classical criticism.Arthur WaleyCompared with: Waley’s translations circulated within institutions and assumptions that later critiques of Orientalism examine.IndologyRelated: Indology developed within Oriental studies but focuses specifically on the Indian subcontinent.Max MüllerRelated: Müller’s textual scholarship formed part of the European knowledge tradition now examined through this concept.Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanCompared with: Radhakrishnan challenged dismissive colonial accounts while also shaping Hinduism for Western expectations.Islamic studiesRelated: Its institutional legacy shaped modern European approaches to Islam and remains contested.Thomas Babington MacaulayCompared with: Macaulay’s preference for English education challenged the established Orientalist curriculum in India.Japanese studiesNarrower topic: Japanese studies developed partly out of older scholarship organized under this broad label.TurkologyNarrower topic: Turkology developed partly within institutions and assumptions of this wider field.Quranic studiesRelated: Debates over its assumptions have shaped critiques of European Quranic scholarship.The MuqaddimahRelated: Modern European scholars’ reception of Ibn Khaldun raises questions about how his work was translated and classified.Alan WattsRelated: Critics examine whether Watts’s broad portrayals of Asian religions flatten their historical differences.Bernard LewisRelated: Debates over the term became inseparable from assessments of Lewis’s scholarship.Vasily BartoldNarrower topic: Bartold’s career belonged to the Russian orientalist institutions and methods of his era.Abu HurayraRelated: Some modern Western scholarship has reassessed Abu Hurayra through debates over hadith origins.East Asian studiesRelated: Its older institutional traditions shaped some early frameworks for studying East Asia.Edward William LaneRelated: Lane’s work belongs to nineteenth-century European Orientalist scholarship.James Henry BreastedNarrower topic: Breasted worked within and helped institutionalize this broad, period-specific academic framework.Eastern philosophyRelated: Its institutions helped establish broad regional categories that included Asian philosophies.Henry Thomas ColebrookeCompared with: Colebrooke’s scholarship belongs to the historical tradition later examined critically as Orientalism.George CurzonRelated: Curzon combined travel writing and scholarship with a governing vision shaped by British imperial assumptions.Semitic studiesNarrower topic: Semitic studies developed partly within institutions and scholarly traditions once grouped under this label.Surendranath DasguptaRelated: His work emerged amid debates over who interprets Indian texts and how historical narratives frame them.William DalrympleCompared with: Debates about representation inform how colonial-era sources and perspectives are read in his work.
KnowraOriental studiesLinked fromLinked fromThe 28 pages that link to Oriental studies, each with the reason it gives.All 28Related 14Narrower topic 5Compared with 9Islamic historiographyCompared with: Modern scholarship has debated how external frameworks shaped interpretations of Muslim historical writing.Edward SaidCompared with: Said criticized how parts of this scholarly tradition represented the East through imperial assumptions.IsnadCompared with: Modern Western debates about hadith have challenged how much historical evidence isnads provide.One Thousand and One NightsRelated: European translations and illustrations helped form images of an imagined “Orient” around the tales.Hadith studiesCompared with: Modern Western scholarship has often questioned hadith origins using approaches distinct from classical criticism.Arthur WaleyCompared with: Waley’s translations circulated within institutions and assumptions that later critiques of Orientalism examine.IndologyRelated: Indology developed within Oriental studies but focuses specifically on the Indian subcontinent.Max MüllerRelated: Müller’s textual scholarship formed part of the European knowledge tradition now examined through this concept.Sarvepalli RadhakrishnanCompared with: Radhakrishnan challenged dismissive colonial accounts while also shaping Hinduism for Western expectations.Islamic studiesRelated: Its institutional legacy shaped modern European approaches to Islam and remains contested.Thomas Babington MacaulayCompared with: Macaulay’s preference for English education challenged the established Orientalist curriculum in India.Japanese studiesNarrower topic: Japanese studies developed partly out of older scholarship organized under this broad label.TurkologyNarrower topic: Turkology developed partly within institutions and assumptions of this wider field.Quranic studiesRelated: Debates over its assumptions have shaped critiques of European Quranic scholarship.The MuqaddimahRelated: Modern European scholars’ reception of Ibn Khaldun raises questions about how his work was translated and classified.Alan WattsRelated: Critics examine whether Watts’s broad portrayals of Asian religions flatten their historical differences.Bernard LewisRelated: Debates over the term became inseparable from assessments of Lewis’s scholarship.Vasily BartoldNarrower topic: Bartold’s career belonged to the Russian orientalist institutions and methods of his era.Abu HurayraRelated: Some modern Western scholarship has reassessed Abu Hurayra through debates over hadith origins.East Asian studiesRelated: Its older institutional traditions shaped some early frameworks for studying East Asia.Edward William LaneRelated: Lane’s work belongs to nineteenth-century European Orientalist scholarship.James Henry BreastedNarrower topic: Breasted worked within and helped institutionalize this broad, period-specific academic framework.Eastern philosophyRelated: Its institutions helped establish broad regional categories that included Asian philosophies.Henry Thomas ColebrookeCompared with: Colebrooke’s scholarship belongs to the historical tradition later examined critically as Orientalism.George CurzonRelated: Curzon combined travel writing and scholarship with a governing vision shaped by British imperial assumptions.Semitic studiesNarrower topic: Semitic studies developed partly within institutions and scholarly traditions once grouped under this label.Surendranath DasguptaRelated: His work emerged amid debates over who interprets Indian texts and how historical narratives frame them.William DalrympleCompared with: Debates about representation inform how colonial-era sources and perspectives are read in his work.