Islam has been Europe’s defining other across centuries

Evidence

For centuries, Europe’s main other has been the world of Islam. … Although perceptions and realities are difficult to disentangle, Islamism is a significant movement, which is at times presented as the most significant challenge to the hegemony of the West as Euro-America. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 194

Categorization

• XREF: Directly echoes Edward Said’s Orientalism framing used elsewhere in the vault on how the West constructs its others. — connects to: Islam was historically perceived as a non-white and Black religion by Europeans — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 199
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 194