English empire turned literary anti-Muslim stereotypes into dominant colonization ideology

Evidence

Orientalism as a colonial discourse could reach maturity only after England had acquired the military and technological capacity to dominate the world. Its actual ability to build a vast empire that stretched the globe created the conditions for a form of racialization that had previously existed as stereotypes in the literary sphere to become a dominant ideology of colonization. … While the “savage” Indian was interchangeable with the “savage” Muslim going back to the seventeenth century, as Matar argues, late eighteenth and nineteenth century racialization acquired a more capitalist gloss, with commercial needs eclipsing the drive to conversion, a hallmark of early modern imperialism. The eighteenth century English author, Daniel Defoe of Robinson Crusoe fame, captured this shift in his call for British domination of Muslim lands based not on Christian zeal but market needs. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 153

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Stereotypes become dominant colonial ideology only once empire gains material power — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 153; English literary realism derives from Reformation iconoclasm and now fuels anti-Muslim prejudice — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 93; The racialization of Muslims was anchored in Enlightenment-era colonial ideologies — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of…, 185 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• British colonial ideology consolidated the essentialized idea of Islam as a homogeneous threat #corroborates (0.85)
• Orientalist Muslim dehumanization legitimizes colonial and imperial adventures #expands (0.85) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 44
• Stereotypes become dominant colonial ideology only once empire gains material power #qualifies (0.82) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 153
• Empire produces anti-Muslim racism which in turn sustains empire #expands (0.82)
• The racialization of Muslims was anchored in Enlightenment-era colonial ideologies #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 185
• English literary realism derives from Reformation iconoclasm and now fuels anti-Muslim prejudice #qualifies (0.75) — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 93
• A defensive ideology among Muslim subjects transformed into an aggressive tool of European conquest #complicates (0.75)
• Lack of direct Muslim contact drove Americans to borrow British colonial stereotypes #expands (0.72) — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 38
• Western scholarship on Islam grew from positions of colonial dominance. #corroborates (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Covering Islam, 349