Learned Orientalist scholarship pressed ideological myths into service

Evidence

In addition, a great deal of what was considered learned Orientalist scholarship in Europe pressed ideological myths into service, even as knowledge seemed genuinely to be advancing. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 170

Categorization

• XREF: Ideology operating inside putatively neutral scholarship is a recurring mechanism throughout the book and in the reader’s critical-theory toolkit (hegemony/common sense).
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 170