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Britain and the Muslim world : historical perspectives /

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 spec...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle : Cambridge Scholars, 2011.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.