الاستشراق المعكوس في فكر حسن حنفي

Abstract EN

Reversed Orientalism appears clearly in the thought of Hanafi, Orientalism Reversed was coined by Al- Azem to describe the tendency of the Arab thinkers who accepted the assumptions of the Orientalists, but inverted its priorities.

The Orientalists thought indicates that, there are essential cultural features that characterize East and West civilizations, but both of them are polar opposites.

This term came into existence to face the Orientalists' writings, Which was launched from an extreme centrism.

Reverse Orientalism has been particularly active in the eighties of the last century, influenced and supported by mechanisms provided with Said's book titled "Orientalism.

Ontological separation between West and East has been emerged in Hanafi's project, which was used by Orientalists in establishing their claims on the euro-centrism project; he employs it in reverse to devote east-centrism to show east precedence and cultural superiority.

Hanafi builds his claims on the distinction of Arab-Islamic ego, and its superiority on the western ego by considering the later molded in history, according to the process of centrifugal means, while Arab-Islamic ego is a centralized ego moving towards the "center" which renders it as an ontological stable ego with an essential nature.