Orientalist scholarship expanded in tandem with European imperial conquest.

Evidence

But the political and historical context within which nineteenth-century Orientalism took shape does beg the question: what sort of relationship was there between European colonialism and Orientalism? — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Early Orientalists codified and domesticated the Orient into a European province of learning.; Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center; Orientalist knowledge served to deepen European suzerainty over Asia (+4 more)

Related

• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. (similarity 0.92)
• Colonial expansion widened geographic knowledge but kept Europe at the privileged center (similarity 0.92)
• The colonized colonizer outlook emerged fully by the 1870s (similarity 0.90)
• Orientalism expanded from scholarly practice to signify imperialist ideology (similarity 0.90)
• Pan-movements crystallized in the 1880s in reaction to Western expansion. (similarity 0.89)
• Orientalism’s institutional growth tracked European colonial expansion from 1815 to 1914 (similarity 0.89)
• Late-nineteenth-century Orientalists directly advised colonial governments on Muslim populations (similarity 0.88)
• European knowledge of the Orient shifted from textual contemplation to administrative and military appropriation (similarity 0.88)
• Institutional Orientalism, not all Orientalist scholarship, served colonial power (similarity 0.88)
• Postwar postcolonial critiques transformed Orientalism’s meaning from scholarship into ideology of empire (similarity 0.87)
• Colonization was not Islam-specific but Orientalism shaped its distinct form (similarity 0.87)
• British control of the Orient depended on constantly refined knowledge of it (similarity 0.87)
• Orient studies served Europe’s needs, not Asia’s reality (similarity 0.87)
• Nineteenth-century Orientalism framed language study as the evolutionary development of the human mind. (similarity 0.87)
• Knowledge of the Orient requires conceiving it as ruled by Europe (similarity 0.86)

Broader Connections

• Colonial expansion and Orientalist essentializing emerged together in the nineteenth century. #corroborates (0.95) — Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Introduction to…, 201
• Western scholarship constructed the East as savage to justify imperial conquest. #expands (0.85)
• Modern Orientalism expanded representational range after the late eighteenth century #expands (0.70)
• Orientalism differs from Hellenism by accompanying colonial conquest #corroborates (0.70) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 860