French schools of oriental studies and their research objects
Abstract
"This article talks about the emergence of Oriental studies in France, books on Oriental studies and the objects of their study. In France, oriental studies as a field of science began to develop in the 17th century. Orientalists who grew up in schools such as the Collège de France, the School of Oriental Languages and the Youth Language School, among the first schools of Oriental studies, made a great contribution to the development of this field of science in the country. In addition to Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Syriac, Hebrew, Armenian and Chinese, many studies have been conducted on the history, culture, geography, ethnography and anthropology of the countries where this language is studied. If you look at the geographical area of Orientalism, French orientalists wrote scientific works about the region, covering the territory from the Mediterranean Sea to Japan. French oriental studies, no matter how developed, is not without criticism. The reason for this is that Orientalism served colonial policy. Despite the fact that it is a science that arose as a result of colonial policy, French oriental studies is gaining its place in world science."