Said distinguished governing-oriented study of the Orient from broader definitions

Evidence

The world’s division into two was an essential part of the larger process of its incorporation into the European world economy and the European political order. The President’s audience included, among the vice-presidents of the Congress, William Gladstone, whose government had carried out the invasion and occupation of Egypt, Lord Dufferin, the first architect of Britain’s colonial policy in the country, and many others – ‘so many practical men,’ as the President warmly remarked, ‘so many statesmen, and rulers, and administrators of Eastern countries’. It was to these colonial administrators and policy makers that the ordering of Orientalism was addressed. — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 518 (#corroborates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms; Orientalism regularizes how the Orient is taught and administered; Colonial administrators directly funded and patronized the scholarly construction of the Orient — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 518

Broader Connections

• Shared intellectual authority over the Orient unified otherwise divergent national Orientalisms #expands (0.78)
• Orientalism regularizes how the Orient is taught and administered #expands (0.74)
• Colonial administrators directly funded and patronized the scholarly construction of the Orient #corroborates (0.72) — Timothy Mitchell, Colonising Egypt, 518