ABSTRACT
The extent to which orientalism is predicates upon the interconnectivity, and the efforts of easterners in particular, the article takes al–Madani as its focus. Al–Madani did this in both speech and in writing, for during time in Medina, composed at least one tract in concerning the correctness of those itinerants who, moving between the Ottoman Empire and South Asia, claimed to sell the “white and black hairs” of the Prophet. The work, likely detected western travelers’ deepening interest in acquiring eastern manuscripts as souvenirs and as sources for better understanding the east. The simultaneous convening of the Sixth Orientalist Congress helped to lift from anonymity by gathering together orientalists, target clientele, in the Netherlands. A more immediate connection between al–Madani and orientalism took root on account of initial transaction with Brill. The congress ended, al–Madani returned to Cairo where al–Burhan published report through the assistance of Landberg.
