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From Empire to Orient - Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926 (Paperback)
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From Empire to Orient - Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926 (Paperback)
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"From Empire to Orient" offers an alternative perspective on
Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the
writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and
political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near
East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the
Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both
anti-imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David
Urquhart's passionate belief in the ideal of municipal government
in Turkey, W.S. Blunt's enthusiasm for the Egyptian reformers of
the Azhar, E.G. Browne's zeal for the Persian revolution and
Marmaduke Pickthall's pained advocacy of the cause of the Young
Turks into their political and historical context and into the
context of their writings. The author argues that the actions of
these men represented a distinctive identification with the Islamic
world and of the involvement of the West in its politics. By
condemning Britain's manoeuvres and choice of allies in the Near
East, each of these writers embellished a narrative of betrayal and
a breach with the British educated classes' view of the Islamic
East.Through the lives and writings of these men who identified so
passionately with the Islamic world, Nash offers a fascinating
perspective on Britain's late imperial period.
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