Individual scholarly mastery feeds into imperial desire for rule

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 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

The role of the early Orientalists like Renan, Sacy, and Lane was to provide their work and the Orient together with a mise en scène; later Orientalists, scholarly or imaginative, took firm hold of the scene. Still later, as the scene required management, it became clear that institutions and governments were better at the game of management than individuals. This is the legacy of nineteenth-century Orientalism to which the twentieth century has become inheritor. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Imperial control operates through refined understanding more than force; Imperial dispositions are trained habits of attention channeled by rules of relevance; For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (+7 more)

Related

• Imperial growth and academic study of Islam collaborated to legitimise power (similarity 0.89)
• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.85)
• Empire generates the scholarly paradigms that then legitimize its interventions. (similarity 0.84)
• Napoleon’s 1798 invasion inaugurated the systematic use of scholarly knowledge to serve empire (similarity 0.83)
• Napoleon inaugurated the systematic use of scholarship for empire (similarity 0.82)
• Political imperialism governs entire fields of study, imagination, and scholarly institutions (similarity 0.82)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalist ideas can circulate without imperial power structures (similarity 0.82)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.81)
• All scholarly knowledge production is shaped by the scholar’s political circumstances. (similarity 0.81)
• Knowledge-producing disciplines were mobilized in service of imperialist worldviews (similarity 0.81)

Broader Connections

• For imperial discourse, knowledge of the Orient constitutes power over it #corroborates (0.85)
• Imperial growth and academic study of Islam collaborated to legitimise power #corroborates (0.85) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187
• Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management #expands (0.85) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501
• Imperial control operates through refined understanding more than force #corroborates (0.80)
• Individual Orientalist authority was tied to the growth of institutional specializations #expands (0.80)
• Napoleon inaugurated the systematic use of scholarship for empire #exemplifies (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 106
• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority #corroborates (0.80) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187
• Imperial dispositions are trained habits of attention channeled by rules of relevance #expands (0.75)
• Scholarly fields are constrained by society, institutions, and cultural tradition #complicates (0.75)