Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority

Evidence

With imperial growth and academic enquiry functioning in close collaboration, so new understandings about Islam and the Muslim world began to emerge that were not only premised and established as being rationalised and scholarly, but endorsed by power too. emerging out of understandings that had for centuries considered Islam and Muslims as an enemy and rival, so newly emergent meanings began to be perceived from a more dominant position, one where Europe was becoming increasingly powerful: a power that was inextricably linked to the processes of colonisation and all that this afforded. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187

Categorization

• XREF: Knowledge-endorsed-by-power is exactly the Said/Foucault power-knowledge nexus that the critical-Muslim-studies framing of Islamophobia draws on — a stance contrast with Bleich’s neutral concept-formation. — connects to: Individual scholarly mastery feeds into imperial desire for rule; Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations; Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them (+6 more)

Related

• Imperial growth and academic study of Islam collaborated to legitimise power (similarity 0.88)
• Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them (similarity 0.87)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.86)
• Orientalist scholarship supplied the knowledge base that justified colonial rule (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.85)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination (similarity 0.84)
• Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power (similarity 0.84)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (similarity 0.83)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation (similarity 0.83)
• Western scholarship on Islam grew from positions of colonial dominance. (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial knowledge treats Orientals as a fixed Platonic essence (similarity 0.83)
• Colonial administrator attitudes toward the Orient formed a shared consensus (similarity 0.82)
• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.82)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism claims authority to speak for an Islam that cannot speak for itself #expands (0.95)
• Orientalism becomes national authority when backed by state institutions #expands (0.85)
• Western scholarly discourse about the Orient was entangled with colonial domination #corroborates (0.85) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 206
• Knowledge produced by discourse subjects those who are known to power #expands (0.70)