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Ziauddin Sardar is one of the few Muslim intellectuals genuinely to have engaged with the new historians. He has called their work "Eurocentrism of the most extreme, purblind kind, which assumes that not a single word written by Muslims can be accepted as evidence". Writing in the aftermath of the Rushdie affair, Sardar placed the western revisionists firmly in the post-colonial orientalist camp, from where colonial "experts" have consistently told Muslims that they know best about the origins of their primitive, barbarian religion....Sardar points out that all of the academics responsible for the new Islamic history emerged from the School of Oriental and African Studies, a colonial institution that is noted for training generations of Foreign Office officials and spies.

Buzzword follows buzzword. Note that the viewpoint of Crone, et. al, is countered only by ad hominem attacks rather than factual refutations.

The popularity of Edward Said's beliefs among Islamists and leftists alike stems from their utility as a club with which to beat heretics and infidels.

[dennisw]

You got them on the buzzwords. Lefties love to speak with buzzwords where what they say has little meaning but communicates a sensibility and emotion of being on the same "team" with the reader.