Jules Mohl: A Missing Link in the Complex Network of Nineteenth-Century Orientalism ?

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Even though Edward Said’s fervent denunciation of the ideologically charged and intellectually biased constructions of Orientalism was a necessary, and salutary call to awareness, which generated a whole spate of critical studies—and, indeed, was one of the founding stones for the whole movement of post-colonial studies—, one of its rather unfortunate side-effects was to implicitly discredit the figure of the Orientalists, those “savants” who, willingly or not, cooperated in the vast enterpri...

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