Orientalism Revisited: Bernard Lewis’s School of Political Islamography

Abstract

This paper aims at examining the writings of a group of “political Islamographists" mainly headed by Bernard Lewis, who are engaged in promoting the idea of "Islamic threat" to the Western civilization. Since this group includes the most venerated counselors of the American and British political establishment on the Middle Eastern affairs, their post-modern Islamography has radically changed the contemporary relations between the Islamic revivalists and the Western powers.