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Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World - British Scholars, Sojourners and Sleuths (Paperback)
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Curating Lived Islam in the Muslim World - British Scholars, Sojourners and Sleuths (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Islamic Studies Series
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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 travellers, sleuths and
observers of lived Islam. The book foregrounds the pre-colonial and
pre-Orientalist phase and locates the multi-disciplinarity of
Britain's relationship with Muslims over the last millennium to
demonstrate a multi-layered interface. Fully sensitive to a gender
balance, the book focuses on specially selected individuals and
their transformative experiences while living and working among
Muslims. Examining the writings of male and female authors
including Adelard, Thomas Coryate, Mary Montagu and Fanny Parkes,
the book analyses their understanding of Islam. Moreover, the
author explores the works of a salient number of representative
colonial British women to move away from the imperious wives
stereotype and shed light on gender and Islam in Near East and
South Asia by illustrating the status of women, tribal hierarchies,
historic and architectural sites and regional politics. Going
beyond familiar views about colonialism, travel writings and
memsahibs without losing sight of the complex relations between
Britain and Asian Muslims, this book will be of interest to
academics working on British history, Imperial history, the study
of religions, Shi'i Islam, Islamic studies, Gender and the Empire
and South Asian Studies.
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