From Empire to Orient Travellers to the Middle East 1830 1926 1st Edition by Geoffrey P Nash ISBN 1780764073 9781780764078
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ISBN 10: 1780764073
ISBN 13: 9781780764078
Author: Geoffrey P. Nash
“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.
Table of contents:
Chapter 1: Acknowledgements
Chapter 2: Introduction
Chapter 3: Britain, Islam and Empire: Some Dissenting Voices
Chapter 4: David Urquhart and the Patronage of the East
Chapter 5: W.S. Blunt: From Oriental Traveller to Anti-Imperialist Agitator
Chapter 6: Lord Curzon and Britain’s Empire in the East
Chapter 7: Edward Granville Brown and the Persian ‘Awakening’
Chapter 8: Marmaduke Pickthall and the Governance of Islam
Chapter 9: Envoi
Chapter 10: Notes
Chapter 11: Bibliography
Chapter 12: Index
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