works of Auguste Comte, John Locke, James Mill, and C. Lloyd Morgan. Comte’s positivism had been mulling for some time and resurged, becoming fundamental to the scientific zeitgeist of the 20th century. Locke’s idea of tabula rasa and Mill’s idea of mechanism are evident in the methodology of behavior.
sexual obsession and repulsion, humiliation, torture, and resentment. The novel is rich with detail and divulges the reader in the particularly emotional and personal nuances of men such as Sayyid Qutb, Ayman Zawahiri, and Osama bin Laden. In 1978, Edward Said wrote the groundbreaking book, Orientalism, which has since given clarity to the power dynamic between the East and the West, the Occident and the Orient. Orientalism is the pervasive and largely Western tradition of building stereotypical and