The Role of the Islamic Revolution in the Development of Research on Orientalism

Responding to the vast propaganda, both ideological and cultural, of the westerners and Orientalists against Islam and the Qurʾān is the duty and mission of religious scholars and researchers. Accordingly, the present paper seeks to provide a brief account of the various efforts made by the scholars of the seminary and university professors who have been active since the glorious victory of the Islamic Revolution of Iran until now. These efforts include: teaching lessons where the views of Orientalists on the Qurʾān, hadith, history and theology are critiqued in the academic centers of the seminary and university, organizing international conferences on [the subject of] the Qurʾān and Orientalists, having dissertations defended in the field of Orientalism in the seminary and at al-Mustafa International University, the establishment of a program on the Qurʾān and Orientalists in the Qom Seminary and at al-Mustafa International University, the publication of two quarterly academic journals on Qurʾān and Orientalist Studies, authoring critiques of Orientalism etc.