Analyzing the Counter Orientalist depiction of Arabic culture in Muhammad Asad’s “The Road to Mecca”

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze how Arabic culture and its values are presented in counter orientalist way in The Road to Mecca by Muhammad Asad. This paper focuses on answer the questions like how Asad presents Arabs and how it is different from how west present. Post-colonial lenses is used in this paper and it is found that Muhammad Asad has not describes east especially Arabs with orientalist perspective but he shows the positive aspects of their culture like their social ethics, norms, strong religious bonding and sense of easiness towards life. On the other hand, West is presented as place of hypocrite people who lack all those values which East has.