European powers treated the Ottoman Empire as a space to be divided

Evidence

In the only part of the Orient where British and French interests literally overlapped, the territory of the now hopelessly ill Ottoman Empire, the two antagonists managed their conflict with an almost perfect and characteristic consistency. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554

Categorization

• XREF: Sets up the partition-and-mandate mechanism that the Sykes-Picot agreement famously formalized, echoed in later Middle East history readings. — connects to: Anglo-French rivalry was managed by planned partition of Ottoman territory — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554; Great-power rivalry over the declining Ottoman Empire shaped Middle East geopolitics — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 138; European domination erased the Ottoman Empire down to its cultural memory. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 427 (+2 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Anglo-French rivalry was managed by planned partition of Ottoman territory — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 554; Great-power rivalry over the declining Ottoman Empire shaped Middle East geopolitics — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 138; European domination erased the Ottoman Empire down to its cultural memory. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 427 (+2 more)