European philology externizeralized Islamic traditions into an irrelevant museum piece.

Evidence

Whereas in the native soil the discursive-cum-applied traditions would be absorbed post eventum into the fold as integral to communal memory, they were, at the hands of European philology, not only externalized (psychologically and epistemically) but also lodged in the world of the historical past as irrelevant, save for the scholarly curiosity that aims to “understand” that “museum-situated” culture. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 954

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the observation about European museums’ display of colonized cultures — the ‘museumizing’ of living traditions — and parallels the treatment of Ottoman and Egyptian material culture.