num_pages: 165
description: Provides a thought-provoking analysis of the stereotypes and misunderstandings about the Western world that ignite anti-Western political movements, tracing the roots and evolution of such phenomena and examining why they have found a ready host in the Islamic world. 35,000 first printing.
language: English
title: Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
titlecomplete: Occidentalism: The West in the Eyes of Its Enemies
genres: Cultural, Religion, Asia, Politics, Philosophy, Japan, Nonfiction, Islam, Sociology, History
ratings_count: 943
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Orwell Prize
publisher: Penguin