“Intellectual history on a high order . . . and very exciting.” —The New York Times
“Powerful and disturbing. . . . The theme is the way in which intellectual traditions are created and transmitted.” —The New York Review of Books
“Stimulating, elegant yet pugnacious. . . . Said observes the West observing the Arabs, and he does not like what he finds.” —The Observer
“An important book. . . . Never has there been as sustained and as persuasive a case against Orientalism as Said’s.” —Jerusalem Post