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Viewing the Islamic Orient Investment Mistakes Even Smart Investors Make Its aim was not simplyThe Islamic Orientstudies the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century. Through a critical analysis of these works, the author examines and questions Edward Saids concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse: his argument that the orientalist view had such a strong influence on westerners that they invariably perceived the orient through the lens of orientalism. On the contrary, the author argues, no single