Curating lived Islam in the Muslim world : British scholars, sojourners and sleuths /
Beginning with the medieval period, this book collates and reviews first-hand scholarship on Muslims in the Middle East and South Asia, as noted down by eminent British travelers, sleuths and observers of lived Islam. The book foregrounds the pre-colonial and pre-Orientalist phase and locates the mu...
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2021].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Travel Narratives and the Imperial Imperatives: Investigating Gender and Islam
- 1. Adelard and Muslim Scholarship: Connecting the Medieval Worlds during the Crusades and Reconquista
- 2. The Pioneer Traveller-Observer: Thomas Coryate's Eastern Journeys and Discourses
- 3. Mary Wortley Montagu in the Ottoman World: A Formidable Non-Orientalist
- 4. Montagu on Gender, Janissaries, Jews and Inoculation in Ottoman Turkey
- 5. Bridging the Gaps: Fanny Parkes among the Indian Muslims
- 6. Mapping Muslim Communities: Mrs Meer Hassan Ali (Biddy Timms) in India
- 7. Scholar, Spy and Imperial Socialite: Gertrude Bell among Muslims
- 8. Lone Scholar and Invisible Sleuth: Freya Stark and Muslims
- Epilogue: Sojourners and Academes
- Bibliography
- Index.