Said's Orientalism and its critics

Here's a review of For Lust of Knowing: the orientalists and their enemies by Orientalist scholar Robert Irwin refuting Said's unrelenting critique on the field of Oriental studies in Orientalism. though he is a notorious card-carrying political critic of literature. As expected, his biggest argument against this book is its blatant ignorance of the politics behind Eastern cultural studies, when political involvement is the exactly the reason for the creation and propagation of this field of knowledge today. Point goes to Terry for never failing to read and write politics in literature, Said gets his respite from the weak thrusts at his arguments from this book, and Irwin sounds like the loser to me here.