Area-studies seminar design shaped Islam as a manageable policy object

Evidence

In the choice of over-all topics and trends the four seminars undertook to shape awareness of Islam in terms that either distanced it as a hostile phenomenon or highlighted certain aspects of it that could be “managed” in policy terms. — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 323

Related

• Arabist and Islamic studies resisted the revision that reformed other area studies (similarity 0.81)
• The reified notion of Islam has hindered rather than helped understanding of Muslim societies (similarity 0.79)
• Academic definitions of Islamophobia must be coupled with lived testimony. (similarity 0.79)
• Policy-oriented scholarship serves political exigencies rather than new knowledge. (similarity 0.79)
• Anti-Muslim sentiment is a pervasive mood and policy (similarity 0.78)
• Western ideological camps all reduce Islam to a scapegoat (similarity 0.78)
• Islamophobic claims serve to positively define their speakers rather than describe Muslims (similarity 0.78)