Napoleon institutionalized Orientalist consultation as standing colonial policy

Evidence

When Napoleon left Egypt, he gave strict instructions to his deputy that Egypt was to be administered according to the model he had set: Orientalists were to be consulted before policies could be enacted, and the Muslim religious leaders he had won over also needed to be part of the arsenal of colonial rule. Napoleon charged his small army of scholars with the task of gathering vast amounts of firsthand information about Egypt. — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 158

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Napoleon institutionalized Orientalists and co-opted religious leaders into colonial administration; Napoleon made Orientalist consultation a standing administration rule; Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Napoleon made Orientalist consultation a standing administration rule #corroborates (0.98)
• Napoleon institutionalized Orientalists and co-opted religious leaders into colonial administration #expands (0.90)
• Napoleon inaugurated the systematic use of scholarship for empire #expands (0.80) — Deepa Kumar, Islamophobia and the Politics of Empire, 106
• Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power #complicates (0.72)