الاستغراب : بين الوصفية و المعيارية : مقاربة تاريخية

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This research highlights the importance of Occidentalism which has become an inevitable cultural necessity for recognizing the other; the (West) and confront its schemes which target our system of values and our economic capabilities as well as being chiefly a legitimate necessity.

This necessity is derived from the verses of the Holy Qur'an calling for contemplation and getting lessons from the history of nations and peoples as stated in Surat Al- Fath "This is the established way of Allah which has occurred before and never will you find in the way of Allah any change" (Verse 23).

Also، in Surat Al- Hashr "they destroyed their houses by their own hands and the hands of the believers.

So، take warning، o people of vision" (Verse 2).

This conscious reading can hardly be attained unless we possess and control the science and methodology as the West did when they studied the East through establishing orientalism aiming at dismantling our culture then it would become easier to dismantle our nation and this is what happened in fact.

Hence، is it possible to establish a kind of science peculiar to us? This science should be like orientalism but with counter objectives and its main task is to defend and discover.

This is the main problem controlling the course of this research.

The researchers wish they would contribute to create a blog about "Occidentalism" to meet the proposed challenges and sought goals in the light of the contemporary western dominance.