Religious scholarly devotion and governmental worldliness coexisted in leading Orientalists

Evidence

Both were to become deeply religious men, students not so much of society as of the religious life in society. Both were also profoundly worldly; one of their greatest achievements was putting traditional scholarship to use in the modern political world. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 681

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the Orientalist-as-political-actor theme running through Said’s overall argument about knowledge serving power.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 681