Jamal Awil

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Orientalist scholarship racialized Muslims into a stereotyped pariah type. [fact]

Like Jews, Muslims are described as a racial type, represented by the Arab in Orientalist “scholarship.” An article on the Arab personality type describes Muslims as members of a pariah community, characterized by “irrationality or emotionalism, rigidity of thought, extreme suspiciousness and mistrust, free-floating hostility. . . fatalism, laziness, [a] lack of cooperative spirit, and [finally] authoritarianism.”

QUESTION: Which specific article on the 'Arab personality type' is being cited here? Worth tracing the source. XREF: Connects to McVeigh's work on anti-Jewish racial stereotyping and Said's Orientalism critique.

Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imag…, loc. 399