TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nash,Geoffrey
TI  - From empire to orient: travellers to the Middle East, 1830-1926 
SN  - 185043767X
AV  - DS63.2.G7 .N28 2005
U1  - 327.4105609034 22
PY  - 2005///
CY  - London, New York
PB  - I.B. Tauris
KW  - Blunt, Wilfrid Scawen,
KW  - Pickthall, Marmaduke William,
KW  - Urquhart, David,
KW  - Anti-imperialist movements
KW  - Great Britain
KW  - History
KW  - Middle East
KW  - Foreign public opinion, British
KW  - 19th century
KW  - 20th century
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-245) and index; 1; Britain, Islam and empire : some dissenting voices --; 2; David Urquhart and the patronage of the East --; 3; W. S. Blunt : from Oriental traveller to anti-imperialist agitator --; 4; Lord Curzon and Britain's empire in the East --; 5; Edward Granville Browne and the Persian 'awakening' --; 6; Marmaduke Pickthall and the governance of Islam
N2  - "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
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