European identity made knowledge of the Orient inseparable from rule over it.

Evidence

Burton’s two voices blending into one presage the work of Orientalists–cum–imperial agents like T. E. Lawrence, Edward Henry Palmer, D. G. Hogarth, Gertrude Bell, Ronald Storrs, St. John Philby, and William Gifford Paigrave, to name only some English writers. The double-pronged intention of Burton’s work is at the same time to use his Oriental residence for scientific observation and not easily to sacrifice his individuality to that end. The second of these two intentions leads him inevitably to submit to the first because, as will appear increasingly obvious, he is a European for whom such knowledge of Oriental society as he has is possible only for a European, with a European’s self-awareness of society as a collection of rules and practices. In other words, to be a European in the Orient, and to be one knowledgeably, one must see and know the Orient as a domain ruled over by Europe. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 500

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the constitutive condition of Orientalist knowledge: being a knowledgeable European in the Orient requires knowing it as a domain Europe rules.
• XREF: This ‘to be a European in the Orient… one must see and know the Orient as a domain ruled over by Europe’ is the genetic mechanism of the toolkit — links to racialized selfhood and colonial psychology modules. — connects to: European knowledge about the Orient served domination rather than truth. — Nick Couldry & Ulises A. Mejias, The Costs of Connection: How Data Is…, 262
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 500