Scholarly writing can mix objective method with personal spiritual intuition in two registers

Evidence

His writings on these subjects have acquired from the qualities that he brought to them a permanent significance in Islamic studies. But just because of these qualities they are composed, as it were, in two registers. One was at the ordinary level of objective scholarship, seeking to elucidate the nature of the given phenomenon by a masterly use of established tools of academic research. The other was at a level on which objective data and understanding were absorbed and transformed by an individual intuition of spiritual dimensions. It was not always easy to draw a dividing line between the former and the transfiguration that resulted from the outpouring of the riches of his own personality. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 682

Categorization

• XREF: This two-register description of Massignon is a concrete instance of the constructed, tradition-bound Orientalist subjectivity that is a core scaffold concept for the Islamophobia readings.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 682