Orientalist discourse was a juncture rather than a continuous line of anti-Islam thought

Evidence

Despite this, it is difficult to conclude that the meanings and understandings that were evident in Orientalist discourses were part of a continuum that linked the medieval John of Damascus with the Will Cummins of the contemporary. Instead, Orientalist discourse was a juncture in the evolution of those discourses that are evident in the here and now as indeed they were in the distant past. — Chris Allen, Islamophobia, 189

Categorization

• XREF: This juncture framing (against a simple continuum reading) is a methodological stance worth holding against how Bleich and Runnymede periodise the history of western anti-Muslim sentiment. — connects to: Nerval’s voyage resisted the discursive finality of orthodox Orientalism.; Even the most learned, sympathetic Orientalists converged on Islam’s latent inferiority; American Orientalism persists fragmentarily but ideologically coherently (+5 more)

Related

• Nerval’s voyage resisted the discursive finality of orthodox Orientalism. (similarity 0.93)
• Islamic Orientalism resisted internal critique while cognate fields engaged it. (similarity 0.88)
• The West-Orient binary found its first legitimised modern manifestation in Orientalism (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism must be examined at both the general and the individual level (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalist scholarship widens rather than bridges the East-West divide (similarity 0.83)
• Orientalism operates as a discourse with material institutional support (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism’s intent was critique, not affirmation of antithetical identities (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalist texts were designed for Western readers, not Oriental ones. (similarity 0.82)
• Even the most learned, sympathetic Orientalists converged on Islam’s latent inferiority (similarity 0.82)
• Treating orientalism as mere colonial discourse is analytically hindering (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism began as discourse before hardening into material institutions and state policy. (similarity 0.82)
• Orientalism is a differentiated analysis, not a blanket attack on the West (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist categories can contradict what Muslims would say about themselves (similarity 0.81)
• Orientalist discourse was addressed exclusively to Western audiences, never to Orientals (similarity 0.81)
• European orientalist discourse about Jews and Muslims developed in parallel, not isolation (similarity 0.81)