The West's fading credibility

Mohd Noor Merican, Ahmad Murad (2025) The West's fading credibility. New Straits Times, August (8). p. 1.

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Abstract

The vibes in the environment reflect an irrelevant West. The Euro-American world has been demotivating, at least for some academics who feel that the corpus we have engaged in for some decades is suffering from a lack of credibility. It would be extremely pertinent now to revisit the West — before it decomposes itself amid the ruins of Gaza. Our ideas of "East" and "West" have never been free from myth and fantasy. Significantly, even to this day, they are not primarily ideas about place and geography. This was written more than 30 years ago. Sociologist and cultural theorist Stuart Hall needs a hearing. His work, The West and the Rest: Discourse and Power, first published in 1992, needs a re-reading. "West" and "western" represent very complex ideas. It must be remembered that these have no simple or single meaning. Hall argues that while it is true that what we call "the West" first emerged in Western Europe, it is no longer in Europe; and in what we are seeing, not all of Europe is in "the West". And Europeans, too, have long been unsure about where Europe "ends" in the east.

Item Type:	Article (Newspaper)
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Europe History, Politics, War
Subjects:	B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc > BP1 Islam > BP173.5 Islam and world politics H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General) J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	International Institute of Islamic Thought and Civilization (ISTAC)
Depositing User:	PROF. DR. AHMAD MURAD MOHD NOOR MERICAN
Date Deposited:	11 Feb 2026 22:40
Last Modified:	12 Feb 2026 12:12
Queue Number:	2026-02-Q2101
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/127377

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