Orientalist scholars frame their work as restoring a vanished Orient for passive disciples.

Evidence

The didactic speaker, therefore, displays his material to the disciples, whose role it is to receive what is given to them in the form of carefully selected and arranged topics. … Since the Orient is old and distant, the teacher’s display is a restoration, a re-vision of what has disappeared from the wider ken. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 338

Categorization

• XREF: The ‘restoration/re-vision’ framing foreshadows the dynamics of ‘revival’ and authoritative re-presentation that recur in later Islamophobia-critical readings.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 338