Al-Rizzo, Hassan Muthaffer. “Addressing Contemporary Orientalist Issues: A Critical Comparative Study between the Methods of Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes," Year 11, Issue 44 (Spring 1427 AH/ 2006 CE), Pp. 129-152.

Abstract

Hassan Al-Rizzo’s article discusses Orientalism in terms of interests, goals, divisions, fields, and Orientalist discourse, and applies to his study the term “data mining,” a term commonly used in trade and business and in analyzing databases.  His research applies this methodology in studying Orientalist texts in order to improve studies in this vital field; a field which has been dominated by traditional methodological approaches to Orientalism. The mechanism of “epistemological mining of texts” has evolved from data mining, and has given researchers the ability to read texts in more analytical depth and in a shorter span of time; allowing searching for the significance of terms, analyzing mathematical and logical relationships among them. The article examines data mining from a conceptual framework, the components of textual mining mechanism, and the works of Orientalists such as Bernard Lewis and Daniel Pipes, and it concludes with addressing the details of data handling.