orientalist
Noun
Meaning
An inhabitant of the Eastern parts of the world; an Oriental.
One versed in Eastern languages, literature, etc.; as, the Paris Congress of Orientalists.
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Albright’s expansive and deep-time perspective on biblical archaeology grew out of his generalist, or orientalist, approach to understanding the evolution of the biblical world in all its intricate facets.
By mid 19th-century, colonial orientalist texts further distinguished Hindus from Buddhists, Sikhs and Jains, but the colonial laws continued to consider all of them to be within the scope of the term Hindu until about mid 20th-century.
Donald Keene explained in a preface to the Nihon Gakujutsu Shinkō Kai edition of the Man'yōshū: : "One 'envoy' (hanka) to a long poem was translated as early as 1834 by the celebrated German orientalist Heinrich Julius Klaproth (1783–1835).
It’s so Orientalist because she is a Spanish woman, in a Muslim scarf, posing in the iconic Majorelle Gardens in Marrakech.”
Other languages * In 2015 it was translated into Romanian for the first time by orientalist philologist Gheorghe Iorga.
Although my friend Bill once jokingly referred to me as an Orientalist, the truth is – as far as food goes - I'm more of a Chinophile.