No scholar can study a culture from a position of neutrality.

Evidence

The study of any culture, as of any phenomenon, is ineluctably framed by the value-system and cultural imperatives of the scholar, irrespective of any claim to objectivity. This is what it means not to have—or the impossibility of having—a neutral point of view from which to study anything in the world. — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism, 449

Categorization

• DEFINE: Defines the impossibility of a neutral standpoint as the foundational premise of Hallaq’s approach.