Orientalism
Alex Dika Seggerman
Related Terms:
- Arabesque (stylized vegetal scroll ornamentation)
- Farangi (European style)
- Hurufiyya (abstract art that uses Arabic-script letters)
- Nahda (Arab awakening or enlightenment)
- Saqqakhana (public water fountain and/or modern Iranian art movement)
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References:
Beaulieu, Jill, and Mary Roberts, eds. Orientalism’s Interlocutors: Painting, Architecture, Photography. Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2002. 
Foucault, Michel. Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison. Translated by Alan Sheridan. New York: Pantheon Books, 1977.
Roberts, Mary. Intimate Outsiders: The Harem in Ottoman and Orientalist Art and Travel Literature. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Said, Edward. Culture and Imperialism. New York: Vintage Books, 1994.
Said, Edward. Orientalism. New York: Pantheon Books, 1978.
Citation:
Alex Dika Seggerman, “Orientalism,” Khamseen: Islamic Art History Online, published 3 September 2021.
Alex Dika Seggerman is Associate Professor of Islamic Art History in the Department of Arts, Culture and Media at Rutgers University-Newark. She is the author of Modernism on the Nile: Art in Egypt between the Islamic and the Contemporary (UNC Press, 2019) and co-editor of Making Modernity in the Islamic Mediterranean (Indiana University Press, 2022).