Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations

Evidence

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)

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. emerging out of understandings that had for centuries considered Islam and Muslims as an enemy and rival, so newly emergent meanings began to be perceived from a more dominant position, one where Europe was becoming increasingly powerful: a power that was inextricably linked to the processes of colonisation and all that this afforded. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187 (#expands, via linked claim)

But the political and historical context within which nineteenth-century Orientalism took shape does beg the question: what sort of relationship was there between European colonialism and Orientalism? — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187; Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501; Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear:…, 118 (+3 more)

Related

• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.89)
• Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest. (similarity 0.88)
• Even the most learned, sympathetic Orientalists converged on Islam’s latent inferiority (similarity 0.86)
• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.86)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.85)
• Nineteenth-century Orientalism essentialized Muslims as intrinsically inferior during colonial expansion. (similarity 0.85)
• Orientalist scholarship supplied the knowledge base that justified colonial rule (similarity 0.85)
• Late-nineteenth-century Orientalist scholars were politically bound to colonial administrations (similarity 0.85)
• Colonial administrator attitudes toward the Orient formed a shared consensus (similarity 0.84)
• The belief that Muslims had different needs enabled colonial indifference. (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.84)
• Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power (similarity 0.84)
• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority (similarity 0.84)
• Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management (similarity 0.84)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.84)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism evolved from personal observation into institutional and governmental management #expands (0.92) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 501
• Colonial power endowed scholarly knowledge about Islam with authority #expands (0.90) — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 187
• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. #corroborates (0.78) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201
• Direct contact with Muslims shaped imperial perceptions of Islam. #qualifies (0.75) — Peter Gottschalk and Gabriel Greenberg, Common Heritage, Uncommon Fear, 118