Academic Orientalism neglected the modern, actual Orient until late in the nineteenth century

Evidence

Not until quite late in the century, with the single major exception of Napoleon’s Institut d’Égypte, was much attention given to the academic study of the modern, or actual, Orient. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 151

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• XREF: Napoleon’s Institut d’Égypte links to later colonial-knowledge readings on how conquest produced its own scholarship.

Related

• Orientalist scholarship cannot be detached from its imperial context (similarity 0.87)
• Imperial ambition converted scholarly Orientalist study into active colonization (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism is only the visible tip of a larger modern structure. (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist knowledge became institutionalized expertise spanning universities, ministries, and popular media. (similarity 0.83)
• Modern Orientalism is defined by expanded representational range, not greater accuracy (similarity 0.83)
• Early Orientalism studied classical texts, not living societies (similarity 0.83)
• Napoleon’s failed occupation nonetheless founded the entire modern discourse of Orientalism. (similarity 0.83)
• Some nineteenth-century writers engaged the Orient aesthetically without reducing it to documentary knowledge (similarity 0.82)
• Knowledge of the Orient requires conceiving it as ruled by Europe (similarity 0.82)
• Nineteenth-century Orientalism framed language study as the evolutionary development of the human mind. (similarity 0.82)
• Major Orientalist scholarship was published in Latin into the twentieth century. (similarity 0.81)
• Even technically accomplished Orientalist scholarship rests on racist and mercenary assumptions. (similarity 0.81)
• Textual knowledge of the Orient made it seem conquerable (similarity 0.81)
• Oriental studies were reframed as instruments of national postwar policy, not scholarship (similarity 0.81)
• Textually-derived Orientalist knowledge systematically substitutes for and precedes direct encounter (similarity 0.81)