From empire to orient : travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 /
Geoffrey P. Nash.
- 252 pages ; 24 cm
Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index.
Britain, Islam and empire : some dissenting voices -- David Urquhart and the patronage of the East -- W. S. Blunt : from Oriental traveller to anti-imperialist agitator -- Lord Curzon and Britain's empire in the East -- Edward Granville Browne and the Persian 'awakening' -- Marmaduke Pickthall and the governance of Islam. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
"This book 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 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 advocacy of the cause of the Young Turks into their political and historical context and into the context of their writings."--Publisher description.
185043767X 9781850437673
2005296784
Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922 --Political and social views. Pickthall, Marmaduke William, 1875-1936 --Political and social views. Urquhart, David, 1805-1877. --Political and social views. Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen, 1840-1922. --Political and social views. Pickthall, Marmaduke William, 1875-1936. --Political and social views.