Orientalism functioned as a regulated knowledge system for acquiring and disseminating Oriental material

Evidence

Orientalism organized itself systematically as the acquisition of Oriental material and its regulated dissemination as a form of specialized knowledge. One copied and printed works of grammar, one acquired original texts, one multiplied their number and diffused them widely, even dispensed knowledge in periodic form. It was into and for this system that Lane wrote his work, and sacrificed his ego. The mode in which his work persisted in the archives of Orientalism was provided for also. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 419

Categorization

• XREF: This institutional-archive understanding of Orientalism connects to Foucault’s concept of the archive/discursive formation, which later Islamophobia readings will invoke.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 419