Ottoman decline enabled the Semitic Orient to displace Turkish orientalism

Evidence

The idea of a Semitic Orient could only develop when Ottoman power was no longer supreme in the Arab world. The Turkish language is not Semitic, so it followed from the racial-linguistic assumptions of the time that the Turks were a different race from the Semitic-speaking Arabs and Jews. With Ottoman power beginning to fade, however, it was the Arab character of much of the Orient, and of the Islamic religion, that took hold of the Western imagination. — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 121 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: The oriental stereotype’s referent shifted from Saracen to Turk to Arab across eras.; Europe’s image of the Semitic Orient emerged only as Ottoman power declined — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 121; Ottoman decline freed orientalism to aid Enlightenment anti-Christian universalism — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 111 (+3 more)

Broader Connections

• Europe’s image of the Semitic Orient emerged only as Ottoman power declined #corroborates (0.92) — Ivan Davidson Kalmar, Derek Penslar, Orientalism and the Jews, 121