“A historian of science is not expected to be a scientist, but he is expected to have some basic knowledge of the scientific alphabet. Similarly, a historian of Orientalism—that is to say, the work of historians and philologists—should have at least some acquaintance with the history and philology with which they were concerned.”

— Edward Said

Bernard Lewis, "The Question of Orientalism", The New York Review of Books, 24 June 1982

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