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Edward Said's  seminal book Orientalism refers to Arabic and Persian places for the most part as non-Western, so most social thinkers today follow his categorization and end the "West" at the Bosporus, or at most Kurdistan. Damascus is not considered part of the West, for example.
by santiago on Wed Sep 5th, 2012 at 10:05:28 PM EST
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Right, but Christianity and (to a lesser extent) Judaism are considered western again.
by Katrin on Thu Sep 6th, 2012 at 01:33:17 AM EST
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