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Britain and the Muslim world : historical perspectives / edited by Gerald MacLean.
- Format:
- Book
- Conference/Event
- Author/Creator:
- Conference on "Britain and the Muslim World : Historical Perspectives", Corporate Author.
- Conference Name:
- Conference on "Britain and the Muslim World : Historical Perspectives" (2009 : University of Exeter)
- Conference on "Britain and the Muslim World : Historical Perspectives"
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Great Britain--Relations--Islamic countries--Congresses.
- Great Britain.
- Islamic countries--Relations--Great Britain--Congresses.
- Islamic countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (318 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Based on papers presented at an international three-day conference, sponsored by the British Academy and held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter in April 2009, this collection of essays provides a comprehensive and accessible synthesis of the most advanced specialist and scholarly knowledge to date concerning historical perspectives on relations between Britain and the Muslim World. Ranging from the early-modern period to the present day, the essays coll...
- Contents:
- Introduction : Britain and the Muslim world / Gerald MacLean
- British private traders in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Om Prakash
- Outrageous rites : early modern English encounters with Levantine religious rituals / Eva Johanna Holmberg
- "You will say they are Persian but let them be changed" : Robert and Teresa Sherley's embassy to the court of James / Kate Arthur
- Elihu Yale, the East India Company, and the problem with Madras / Rajani Sudan
- Anglo-Ottoman enlightenment? : Thoroughbreds and the public sphere / Donna Landry
- Turning Turk, turning heretic : Joseph Pitts of Exeter and the early enlightenment, 1640-1740 / Humberto Garcia
- Performance and performing in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters from Istanbul, 1716-18 / Georgina Lock
- Alternatives to Orientalism? : Mary Wortley Montagu and her "Turkish" son" / Bernadette Andrea
- The Muslim world in British fictions of the nineteenth century / Robert Irwin
- Owen Jones and the Islamic world / Abraham Thomas
- The first Englishwoman on the Hajj : Lady Evelyn Cobbold in 1933 / William Facey
- Dr Sayyid Mutwalli ad-Darsh's fatwas for Muslims in Britain : the voice of official Islam? / Gerard Wiegers
- Manifesto for a new translation of the Qur'an / Ziad Elmarsafy
- Al Hadatha : race and identity in Palestinian early literature of resistance / Ahmed Masoud
- Peering around the "velvet curtain of culture" : the employment and housing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Muslim immigrants, 1960s-1990s / Sarah Hackett
- A duty to belong? : Muslim women of Cardiff as a case study / Marta Warat
- Interfaith dialogue and religious literacy prevent Christian-Muslim violence in the UK and US / Vincent Biondo
- Framing Muslims in British television drama : "realism" or stereotypes? / Peter Morey
- Muslims in the media / Tim Llewellyn.
- Notes:
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Conference proceedings, 2009, University of Exeter.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-283-14171-X
- 1-4438-2592-1
- 9786613141712
- OCLC:
- 816845310
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