المسلم العثماني كآخر في كتابات لويس برنار

Abstract EN

The orientalist Louis Bernard is considered as one of the most controversial Orientalists of modern times because of his association with politics and the geopolitical vision of the Middle East.

He also paid particular attention to the Arab-Islamic civilization, especially the Ottoman Empire, where Islam posed a real threat to Europe.

In this article we illustrate the image of the Ottoman Muslim in some of the writings of Louis Bernard, where he did not attach importance to the other’s image and representation both socially and culturally in the public as is commonly claimed in most studies, but more importantly to the significance of the Ottoman presence in the political, intellectual and literary corpora of the West and its presence as an existential relationship contributing to shaping the history of Europe and the world under the Islamic-Christian conflict which started in the Middle Ages and continued up to the modern era