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Since Edward Said´s foundational work, Orientalism has been singled out for critique as the quintessential example of Western intellectuals´ collaboration with oppression. Controversies over the imbrications of knowledge and power and the complicity of Orientalism in the larger project of colonialism have been waged among generations of scholars. But has Orientalism come to stand in for all of the sins of European modernity, at the cost of neglecting the complicity of the rest of the academic disciplines?

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Wael B. Hallaq´s Restating Orientalism is going to add a new dimension to the long debate about Orientalism. Hallaq´s work offers both a partial reevaluation and a substantial extension to Said´s original argument. Going beyond the questions of representations of the Orient, Hallaq´s work expands the scope of this critical discussion to reexamine the epistemological foundations of modern historical social sciences. Sudipta Kaviraj, Columbia University

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Wael B. Hallaq is the Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities at Columbia University, where he teaches and writes about Islamic law and intellectual history. His books include Shari´a: Theory, Practice, Transformations (2009) and The Impossible State: Islam, Politics, and Modernity´s Moral Predicament (2013), which won Columbia University Press´s Distinguished Book Award.

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