In the Department of Arabic Language – College of Islamic Sciences, University of Karbala, and in the hall of Imam Al-Hussein (PBUH), a discussion of the doctoral dissertation marked Center and Margin in Quranic Prospective Studies (Bernard Lewis as a model) took place. For the student, Ali Jawad Kazem, at nine o’clock in the morning on Sunday, 5/21/2023

The thesis seeks to uncover the issues of (center) and (margin) in Orientalist thought, highlighting their manifestations in the writings of the Anglo-American orientalist Bernard Lewis, and analyzing his orientalist culture to identify the hidden aspects behind them, and reveal the latent ones, which targeted the East in general, and Islam in particular, if we notice that The center is the constant in a culture in the relative sense of a fixed concept, which is formed from the consolidation of beliefs, philosophies, customs and traditions, while the margin is what lies outside the periphery of the intellectual circle, it is the thought and discourse of the isolated minority outside the scope of the dominant culture, it is a cultural study.

The thesis gains its importance from several aspects, most notably: its endeavor to shed light on the central issues in Orientalist thought, clarify its patterns, diagnose the intellectual content of the other, expose what was extracted from it behind the discourses of power, analyze and reveal the main motives behind the Orientalist movement, as well as an attempt to expose and expose the falsehoods. which the orientalists attributed to Islam and the response to it, the research also diagnoses the cultural references of the orientalist movement, on which the orientalist thought was based in terms of the educational, religious and social environment.

The discussion committee consisted of Prof. Dr.: Hazim Fadel Muhammad from Karbala University – College of Islamic Sciences – Chairman. And Prof. Dr.: Ali Hashem, students from Al-Muthanna University – College of Education for Human Sciences – Member. And Prof. Dr.: Muhammad Abd al-Hasan Hussain from the University of Babylon – College of Education for Human Sciences – Member
And Professor Dr. Bushra Hanoun Mohsen from the University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences, member, and Professor Dr.: Ali Muhammad Yassin – University of Karbala – College of Islamic Sciences – member, and Assistant Professor Dr. Safaa Hussein Latif from Karbala University – College of Islamic Sciences, member and supervisor.