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
Or it is written off as simply a common mode of thinking in the period. Like, yes this is Islamophobic but everyone was so we don't need to peer too deeply into the issue. I also see writers use terms like "Mohammadan," in their own analyses, which is very problematic.