This research aims to study the impact of modern British Orientalism on Orientalist Hugh Kennedy from his start at the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) in 2007 AD until the present. The research includes a brief definition of the school and its founding date, as well as its impact on contemporary British Orientalism and its impact on the Orientalist Hugh Kennedy through its graduates, the most important of which are the Orientalist Bernard Lewis with his students, some of whom Kennedy studied at the doctorate level, including Martin Hinds, Patricia Crone, and Michael Cook

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