TFW you're forced to become an expert on early modern Islamophobia because everyone in your field has insisted that it and Orientalism didn't exist in the period. #AcademicTwitter #IAmWriting #RB4R #ShakeRace
On the whole, there's not a sustained critique of Islamophobia in this archive, especially because Orientalism was written off as inapplicable because of periodization. We see a lot more studies of "Islamophilia," that border dangerously close to Orientalism in their methods.