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“project sought to establish a language that would enable the world to be comprehended in its totality. The name of this system of significations varied with context: sometimes it was called Reason, sometimes History, sometimes Science—but I prefer to call it Westernese. For this language game arose from extrapolating a very specific reading of the West and projecting it into the future as the destiny of the planet.”

Salman Sayyid, Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order
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Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order Recalling the Caliphate: Decolonisation and World Order by S. Sayyid
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