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  1. 'Badass Librarians' Foil al Qaeda, Save Ancient Manuscripts
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2016
    Scholars used donkey carts, boats, and teenage couriers to smuggle a priceless collection out of Timbuktu.
  2. Encyclopaedia of Islam
    New Editon

    Resource Type: Book
  3. For Lust of Knowing
    The Orientalists and their enemies

    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 2006
    A rebuttal of Edward Said which examines who the Orientalists were, how historically they advanced their disciplines, and what their achievements have been. Irwin calls Said's book "a work of malignant charlatanry."
  4. Said, Edward, Critical Notes on
    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2005
    Edward Said was admired by the anti-imperialist left for his courageous defence of Palestinian rights. However, Irfan Habib argues that unfortunately Said's scholarly work, notably his major work 'Orientalism,' was confused and sloppy to be point of being unethical.
  5. Edward Said's shadowy legacy
    Tricky with argument, weak in languages, careless of facts: but, thirty years on, Said still dominates debate

    Resource Type: Article
    Published: 2008
    So many academics want the arguments presented in Edward Said's Orientalism (1978) to be true. It discourages any kind of critical approach to Islam in Middle Eastern studies.
  6. Why I Am Not A Muslim
    Resource Type: Book

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