Western Orientalism is best studied as the Anglo-French-American encounter with Islam and Arabs

Evidence

My starting point therefore has been the British, French, and American experience of the Orient taken as a unit, what made that experience possible by way of historical and intellectual background, what the quality and character of the experience has been. For reasons I shall discuss presently I limited that already limited (but still inordinately large) set of questions to the Anglo-French-American experience of the Arabs and Islam, which for almost a thousand years together stood for the Orient. Immediately upon doing that, a large part of the Orient seemed to have been eliminated—India, Japan, China, and other sections of the Far East—not because these regions were not important (they obviously have been) but because one could discuss Europe’s experience of the Near Orient, or of Islam, apart from its experience of the Far Orient. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 80

Categorization

• DEFINE: Said scopes his object of study: Orientalism as constructed around the Arab-Islamic Near Orient, not India or the Far East.
• XREF: This scoping of the Orient to Islam/Arabs is the specific genealogy the Islamophobia readings will build on. — connects to: American Orientalism fused European notions of Islam’s alienness with new Arab stereotypes — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204; Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 56; Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (+5 more)
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 80
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: American Orientalism fused European notions of Islam’s alienness with new Arab stereotypes — Cyra Akila Choudhury, Racecraft and Identity in the Emergence…, 204; Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 56; Orientalism is chiefly a British and French cultural enterprise (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Orientalism is chiefly a British and French enterprise, later American. #corroborates (0.94) — Edward W. Said, Orientalism, 56
• American Orientalism was a German-influenced latecomer to the field #complicates (0.75) — Robert Irwin, For Lust of Knowing, 380