Europe Knows Nothing about the OrientA century before the publication of Edward Saids Orientalism, a passionate discourse emerged in the Ottoman Empire, rebutting politicized Western representations of the East. Until the 1930s, Ottoman and early Turkish Republican intellectuals, well acquainted with the European political and cultural scene and charged with their own ideological agendas, deconstructed tired clichs about the Orient. In this book, Zeynep elik recontextualizes Eurocentric