The orientalists' travelers are the future of a colonial project

Abstract

Oriental travelers played a prominent role in dealing with oriental studies from its early stages through the collection of Islamic manuscripts, their transmission to the West, their preservation and indexing. The orientalists roamed the Islamic lands and bought Islamic manuscripts at the lowest prices. The orientalist travelers also carried out personal authorship, the products of which were going to the colonial governments, with the intrusion and discrediting of their books and their export to the East. In addition, these travelers dealt with the political, economic and social conditions of Islamic countries. Some link between Orientalism and colonialism, as the first is considered an introduction to the second. The first was conducting a cultural survey of Arab and Muslim countries, and colonialism advances when the picture of the colonized countries is complete.

Keywords

• orientalism
• colonialism
• islamic history
• travelers