Most chronologists agree that German orientalism did not set
colonial goals for the following reasons:
Germany's distant geographical location
The absence of colonial tendency for the East
The German orientalist studies were not meant for religiously
missionary purposes
The non-affiliation of the German orientalists to politics
The studies of the German orientalists about the Arabic and Islamic
orient were not characterized with antagonism, except for few, as the
spirit of admiration and amicability were salient through their studies of
the Arabic and Islamic civilization.
This was what motivated the German orientalists to the study of the
Orient away from any purposes except the epistemological ones.
This interpretation that has been adopted by some Arabian
chronologists was not accepted by some others, one of whom was
Rudwan Al-Sayed who stated in his book: "German Orientalists:
Ascension, Influence, and Destiny" that: "The Germans did possess
lustful and declared colonialist desires, yet they had not been active until
the German Unity in 1870; at the time when they charged for creating a
vital field in Europe where they claimed that they had been suffocating
due to the pressure of the British, the French, and the Austrian
civilizations; they headed for Africa to grab some regions, then toward
the Ottoman Asia in order to set up a strategic relation with the sick man
in opposition to the Russians, the British, and the French equally ….