الخلفية الدينية و الفكرية للمستشرقين في دراستهم للإسلام : دراسة تحليلية

Abstract EN

The religious and intellectual background of the orientalists in their study of Islam the religious and intellectual background of the orientalists in their study of Islam is the source from which the orientalists derive their ideas in their study of Islam, and the pillar from which they start in confronting this religion, and revealing this background and revealing it is an important step, and an urgent requirement before starting to discuss their position on Islam, the hostile ecclesiastical position on the spread of Islam has had a prominent effect in supporting all intellectual efforts in confronting Islam.

this hostile effect is no less than the impact of the crusades and the Reconquista in distorting the image of Islam and Muslims, and the fictions and popular myths had a prominent effect in drawing distorted mythical images about Muslims.

on it many orientalists wrote about Islam and Muslims, and the stance of the church clashing with science and fighting against scholars in the middle ages had an effect on the orientalists ’stance on all religious matters, so they dropped their view of the church in its position on science on Islam.

their position on Islam, as the emergence of the positivist doctrine in the nineteenth century had an effect on the attitude of westerners towards religion and all that is metaphysical, and it has been shown how many orientalists applied the methodologies of positivist human sciences in their studies of Islam, and showed how the effect of the emergence of the methodology of historical criticism of the book (the holy book) in their study of the holy Quran.