Nineteenth-century Orientalism grew entangled with European colonial power. [causal]

    Nineteenth-century Orientalism grew entangled with European colonial power. [causal]
  

But the political and historical context within which nineteenth-century Orientalism took shape does beg the question: what sort of relationship was there between European colonialism and Orientalism?

QUESTION: The passage poses an open question about the exact relationship between colonialism and Orientalism — worth pursuing the author's answer. Builds on: "Medieval Europe looked up to Islamic civilization's achievements"
Green, Todd H, The Fear of Islam_ An Intro…, loc. 201