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Preface - Arndt Graf, Schirin Fathi and Ludwig Paul Sadik al-Azm - Speaking Truth to Power- Stefan Wild Sadik al-Azm - Gernot Rotter -- I. THEORETICAL APPROACHES -- Chapter 1: Orientalism and Conspiracy - Sadik al-Azm -- Chapter 2: Occidentalism as the Political Unconscious in the Literary Construction of the Other - Lorenzo Casini -- Chapter 3: Edward Said and Bernard Lewis on the Question of Orientalism: A Clash of Paradigms? - Mohd Hazim Shah -- II. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES -- Chapter 4: An Orientalist Mythology of Secret Societies - Robert Irwin -- Chapter 5: A Cultural Sense of Conspiracies? The Concept of Rumour as Propaedeutics to Conspiracism - Karin Hörner -- Chapter 6: Political Culture, Political Dynamics, and Conspiracism in the Arab Middle East - Matthew Gray -- III. CONTEMPORARY DISCOURSES -- Chapter 7: Polemics on 'Orientalism' and 'Conspiracy' in Indonesia: A Survey of the Public Discourse of JIL versus DDII (2001-2005) - J.M. Muslimin -- Chapter 8: Structural Orientalism, Contested Orientalism, Post-Orientalism: A Case Study of Western Framings of 'Violence in Indonesia' - Arndt Graf -- Chapter 9: memri.org - a Tool of Enlightenment or Incitement? - Schirin Fathi -- Chapter 10: The Tragedy of Iblis - Sadik al-Azm Annex Personal bibliography of Sadik Jalal al-Azm - Tanja Strube/Karin Hörner -- Notes on the Authors.