Imperial knowledge about Islam was colored by administrative anxieties and Christian concerns

Evidence

However, after 1857, Britons in India eyed Muslims more warily as a source of potential rebellion. In both the American and British cases, European imperialism made more known about Islam than ever before, although such information was often inflected by administrative anxieties and Christian concerns. — Carl W. Ernst, Islamophobia in America_ The Anatomy of…, 173

Categorization

• XREF: Directly resonates with the reader’s guiding question about fear serving a function — anxiety inflects knowledge itself.