Napoleon’s 1798 invasion of Egypt began serious European conquest of Muslim lands

Evidence

With Napoleon’s invasion of Egypt in 1798, we witness the beginning of serious European attempts to conquer Muslim lands in North Africa and the Middle East. Napoleon’s efforts failed, in part as a result of British intervention, but the French would succeed in invading and occupying Algeria in 1830. Algeria became the first permanent European colony in North Africa, and its conquest marked the beginning of a long, tumultuous, and at times bloody conflict between colonizer and colonized. — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 172

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Napoleon’s 1798 Egyptian campaign founded modern Orientalism — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 381; Napoleon’s 1798 Egypt invasion made scholarly knowledge central to colonization — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 105; Islam became the convenient enemy to mobilize Europe’s territorial ambitions — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 60 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Napoleon’s 1798 Egyptian campaign founded modern Orientalism #expands (0.60) — Sophia Rose Arjana, Muslims in the Western Imagination, 381
• Napoleon’s 1798 Egypt invasion made scholarly knowledge central to colonization #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 105
• Islam became the convenient enemy to mobilize Europe’s territorial ambitions #expands (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 60
• The papacy manufactured Muslims as a holy-war enemy to unify Christian Europe #complicates (0.60) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 93
• Egyptian colonization began decades before the 1882 British occupation #qualifies (0.50) — Khaled Fahmy, All the Pasha_s Men_ Mehmed Ali, his…, 113