At least the Moufti next door thinks that said knows little about Islam, not to mention he is a christian. but just maybe a quick reading on the formation of a culture of resistance under colonialism will tell where he came from.
but i think rodinson is entitled to his opinion, no harm done, marxist or otherwise.
Truth in what, that people in "literary philosophy: do not know one thing very well? It's true that there's an immense amount of ignorance and foolishness in literary theory. But it's dumb to diss someone because of his field in general. Rodinson's field of area studies is largely composed of ideological hacks, guns for hire. And Said is way out of the norm. His scholarship is not merely unquestionable, it sets the standard for the field. As whether he's "bourgrois," I assume that R says this because S is not a Marxist. Well, that's the cross we non-Marxist rads have to bear. We're bourgeois. There are worse things to be. I don't know enough about Islam to say whether S's grasp of Islam is shallow. I'd be surprised it that were true, though. jks
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