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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.
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.
What's it like to be a Muslim living in the West today? And how
different is it to the experiences of Muslims who lived in Western
countries many generations ago? It is a difficult time right now
for the Muslim diaspora throughout the United States and Europe.
George W. Bush's 'war on terror' is seen through much of the Muslim
world as a war on Islam. This has complex repercussions for Muslims
living in the West. Tensions and anxieties are running high as many
Muslims in America and Europe are caught in a climate of social
unrest, much of it compounded by living in the spotlight of the
media. This book generates a fresh perspective on the problematic
relationships between Islam, the West and so-called modernity -- in
the light of an increasingly vocal Muslim diaspora in Europe and
the United States. This is not the first time that conflict has
arisen between Muslims in the West and their other communities --
this book examines a long history of volatile social relations
based on extensive travels and research across four continents.
Iftikhar H. Malik offers a wealth of case studies ranging from
Muslim Spain and the Ottoman Empire to the present day; from the
eruptions of anti-Islamic feeling over the Salman Rushdie affair to
the demonisation of Islam currently running high on the agenda of
the 'war on terror'.
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