Britain and the Muslim world
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Gerald MacLean
Contributors: MacLean, Gerald M., 1952-
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Newcastle upon Tyne
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9781443825900
Subjects: Congresses; Relations
Notes: Conference proceedings, 2009, University of Exeter.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction :; title: Britain and the Muslim world  -- Gerald MacLean; title: British private traders in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries  -- Om Prakash; title: Outrageous rites :; title: early modern English encounters with Levantine religious rituals  -- Eva Johanna Holmberg; title: "You will say they are Persian but let them be changed" :; title: Robert and Teresa Sherley's embassy to the court of James  -- Kate Arthur; title: Elihu Yale, the East India Company, and the problem with Madras  -- Rajani Sudan; title: Anglo-Ottoman enlightenment? :; title: Thoroughbreds and the public sphere  -- Donna Landry; title: Turning Turk, turning heretic :; title: Joseph Pitts of Exeter and the early enlightenment, 1640-1740  -- Humberto Garcia; title: Performance and performing in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters from Istanbul, 1716-18  -- Georgina Lock; title: Alternatives to Orientalism? :; title: Mary Wortley Montagu and her "Turkish" son"  -- Bernadette Andrea; title: The Muslim world in British fictions of the nineteenth century  -- Robert Irwin; title: Owen Jones and the Islamic world  -- Abraham Thomas; title: The first Englishwoman on the Hajj :; title: Lady Evelyn Cobbold in 1933  -- William Facey; title: Dr Sayyid Mutwalli ad-Darsh's fatwas for Muslims in Britain :; title: the voice of official Islam?  -- Gerard Wiegers; title: Manifesto for a new translation of the Qur'an  -- Ziad Elmarsafy; title: Al Hadatha :; title: race and identity in Palestinian early literature of resistance  -- Ahmed Masoud; title: Peering around the "velvet curtain of culture" :; title: the employment and housing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Muslim immigrants, 1960s-1990s  -- Sarah Hackett; title: A duty to belong? :; title: Muslim women of Cardiff as a case study  -- Marta Warat; title: Interfaith dialogue and religious literacy prevent Christian-Muslim violence in the UK and US  -- Vincent Biondo; title: Framing Muslims in British television drama :; title: "realism" or stereotypes?  -- Peter Morey; title: Muslims in the media -- Tim Llewellyn.