Orientalism’s past study of Islam produced domination and violence

Evidence

A geographically continuous region under the firmly entrenched control of Islam, inhabited by people whose customs as well as religion were understood as distinctive from those of the Christian West—these were the necessary if not sufficient conditions for the rise of orientalism. The Orient became orientalized. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 110 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Orientalism scholarship shifted to a functionalist definition centered on domination; Centuries of Orientalist scholarship have functioned as domination and violence — Wael Hallaq, Restating Orientalism: A Critique of…, 483; Academic Orientalist ideas preceded and justified military violence against Muslims. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 267 (+6 more)

Broader Connections

• Islam’s territorial control was a precondition for orientalism’s rise #complicates (0.78) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 110