Orientalism metamorphosed from scholarly discourse into an imperial institution

Evidence

During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries the Orientalists became a more serious quantity, because by then the reaches of imaginative and actual geography had shrunk, because the Oriental-European relationship was determined by an unstoppable European expansion in search of markets, resources, and colonies, and finally, because Orientalism had accomplished its self-metamorphosis from a scholarly discourse to an imperial institution. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265

Categorization

• DEFINE: The key stage-transition in the genealogy of Orientalism: pure scholarship becoming state-embedded imperial governance — the exact scaffold concept this reader needs.
• XREF: Parallels Foucault’s discourse-power analysis and the shift from knowledge to institution; directly scaffolds later Islamophobia readings on how scholarly categories become administrative instruments. — connects to: Said defined Orientalism as scholarship tied to governing the Middle East; Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology; Post-1945 critics transformed Orientalism from scholarship into a concept of imperial institution (+3 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 265