Master Thesis

Student: Aya Abbas Fouad

Supervised by:Prof. Dr. Ali Muhammed Yassin

Major: Language and literature of the holy Quran

Publish Date: 2023

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Abstract

This study is based on an investigation of the nature of the cultural image drawn by three orientalists of Makkah Al-Mukarramah, which represents the heart of the Islamic world in their travels to it for different reasons and motives, by describing this image as a mirror in which we see ourselves and ourselves as Arabs and Muslims through the different / non-Arab other.
The thesis extended to three chapters and a preamble that clarifies the study’s entrances and terminology, and each of the three chapters illustrated a different pattern of image patterns that were neutral based on detection and knowledge at (Arthur John Wavell) and tendentious at (Leon Roach) because of their underestimation and degradation of the value of the other at this point. The orientalist known for his espionage and service to the French occupation and his hatred of the Arab-Islamic resistance to this occupation, and the nature of the third image tended to (bias) in favor of the place and its associations related to its customs and beliefs that the German orientalist (Leopold Weiss) admired and tended to after he abandoned his first religion, converting to Islam, and calling himself (Muhammad Asad).
The study, which adopted description and analysis as a method to reach its results, confirmed the imprinting of different images of Makkah in the writings of travelers and orientalists, which are images that express different motives and goals, but they are linked to their owners, their culture, and their attitudes. Academic studies should tackle learning more texts that others write about our cultures and literature. Our customs and traditions.