To be sure, Muslims would have been "orientalised" and exotified, but there was something of a respect for the Civilization of Muslim regions in the 19th century. This was the age of "Thomas Jefferson's Koran" and the "1001 Nights," but before the defeat of the Ottomans.
I don't know... The map is way too nice to Muslims to be usable in modern racism.
To be sure, Muslims would have been "orientalised" and exotified, but there was something of a respect for the Civilization of Muslim regions in the 19th century. This was the age of "Thomas Jefferson's Koran" and the "1001 Nights," but before the defeat of the Ottomans.