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The phenomena of orientalism, occidentalism, and Islamism are at play in a variety of contexts today. This intervention, while not a systematic essay on the subject, presents a kind of collage of analyses, observations, criticisms, and commentaries dealing with several conventional and unconventional themes substantively related to these issues. Occidentalism, it is argued here, has taken various forms over the past few decades: the "Orientalism in Reverse" of Hasan Hanafi and his call for the establishment of a science of istighrab (occidentalism) in the Arab world; the retaliatory occidentalism of Adonis's "Manifesto of Modernity (or Modernism)" of 1980; the Talibanish occidentalism found in a work like The Spirit of Terrorism by Jean Baudrillard; and the benign and popular variety of occidentalism, which helps in some cases to reinforce shaken identities. Such discourses are examined in light of the recent publication of Ian Buruma and Avishai Margalit's Occidentalism and by way of a reassessment of the political intentions of Edward Said's Orientalism. The concluding section of the article is devoted to answering the question, what is Islamism? It is suggested that Islamism as ideology and practice since the mid-1970s can be said to have six defining characteristics: fundamentalism, revivalism, integralism, theocraticism, theonomism, and terrorism.

Since the middle of the 19th century, Islamic intellectuals have dealt with the findings & consequences of the European enlightenment. Can science & Islam reach an agreement? The result of the debate is still up in the air. However, the association with the heretic Rushdie shows perplexing parallels with Galilei's case. Adapted from the source document.

Vor dem Hintergrund der eigenen Wahrnehmung und intellektuellen Verarbeitung der Ereignisse vom 11. September 2001 werden die diesbezüglichen arabischen Debatten und Diskussion analysiert. Dabei werden Verschwörungstheorien, Dimensionen der übertriebenen Rhetorik zum Thema, die Bedenken hinsichtlich der Entwicklungen im Bereich der Menschenrechte und Diskriminierungstendenzen gegenüber muslimischen und nahöstlichen Minderheiten im Westen untersucht. Die politischen Aspekte des Diskussion werden vor allem aus der Sicht der Festlegung einer operationalisierbaren Definition des Krieges gegen den globalen Terrorismus und der Möglichkeiten seiner Instrumentalisierung analysiert. Die kulturellen Dimensionen der Reflexion über die Problematik des thematisierten Krieg untersucht der Autor aus arabischer Sicht und stellt die Alternativen Kampf vs. Dialog der Kulturen zur Diskussion. (ICG)