Nineteenth-century Orientalists routinely collaborated with Arab and Turkish scholars

Evidence

In the nineteenth century, it was common for Orientalists to work in close collaboration with Arab, Turkish and Persian scholars. Similarly, when Burton produced his later translation of the Nights, he relied heavily on the advice of his friend, Yacoub Artin Pasha. — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 292

Categorization

• XREF: Complicates the standard narrative of Orientalists as knowing only through their own authority; connects to Edward Said’s model discussed elsewhere in this book.

Related

• Major Orientalist scholarship was published in Latin into the twentieth century. (similarity 0.79)
• Many Orientalists wrote directly for Muslim and Arab audiences (similarity 0.78)