Imperial growth and academic study of Islam collaborated to legitimise power

Evidence

Largely driven by political, economic and militaristic concerns, the eighteenth century simultaneously also witnessed a number of european countries expanding their empires across the globe. 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. … As Said suggested, much of this continues to inform and shape understandings about Islam and Muslims in the contemporary setting, as much the images, ideas, meanings and understandings as indeed the categories, typologies, classifications and terminologies themselves. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Individual scholarly mastery feeds into imperial desire for rule; Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187; Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 118 (+7 more)

Related

• Individual scholarly mastery feeds into imperial desire for rule (similarity 0.89)
• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority (similarity 0.88)
• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (similarity 0.84)
• Empire generates the scholarly paradigms that then legitimize its interventions. (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.83)
• Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations (similarity 0.82)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.82)
• Academic study of Islam only began with Orientalism’s language training (similarity 0.82)
• Knowledge of colonized peoples produces power to control them (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution (similarity 0.82)
• Western scholarship on Islam grew from positions of colonial dominance. (similarity 0.81)
• European Orientalism was normalized into a coherent US scholarly consensus (similarity 0.81)
• Islamic Orientalism resisted internal critique while cognate fields engaged it. (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist scholarship supplied the knowledge base that justified colonial rule (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority #corroborates (0.92) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187
• Orientalism becomes national authority when backed by state institutions #corroborates (0.85)
• Sharia was codified by the ulama as imperial administrative law #exemplifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 291
• Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. #expands (0.78) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 118
• Individual Orientalist authority was tied to the growth of institutional specializations #expands (0.75)
• Orientalism treats Islam as an essentialized cultural synthesis insulated from economics and politics #complicates (0.72) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 294