Mandate partition of the Ottoman empire redirected archaeological access to French and British scholars

Evidence

The break-up of the Ottoman empire was another important result of the war and one that also had consequences for the development of Orientalism. … After the war, Syria and Lebanon were placed under a French mandate, while Britain took over in Iraq, Jordan and Palestine. As a result, French and British scholars gained easier access to archaeological sites and monuments. The French led the way in urban and rural history. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 384

Categorization

• XREF: Extends the geopolitical-consequences-of-empire thread; connects to how colonial territorial control determined who got to study the Islamic world.

Related

• The Second World War transformed academic Orientalism in Britain (similarity 0.79)