Oriental Encounters
Author: Marmaduke Pickthall
Publisher:
Published: 1927
Total Pages: 310
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPosts
Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
Author: Marmaduke William Pickthall
Publisher: DigiCat
Published: 2022-09-16
Total Pages: 164
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6" by Marmaduke William Pickthall. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6
Author: Marmaduke William Pickthall
Publisher: Good Press
Published: 2019-12-10
Total Pages: 163
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Oriental Encounters: Palestine and Syria, 1894-6" is a Victorian-era travelogue created by Marmaduke William Pickthall, a British writer, and traveler, a convert to the Muslim religion who translated Quaran. His love and passion for the East originated in his youth and childhood and was supported by his mother. Therefore, the book was written out of love for journeys and is very interesting. His stories are full of real-life situations, anecdotes, and truth about how people of the East are.
Oriental Enlightenment
Author: J.J. Clarke
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2002-09-11
Total Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 1134784740
DOWNLOAD EBOOKStyle and level of discussion makes this an ideal intro to Western thought and the East: not philosophically dense. Said's classics `Orientalism' only discusses Islam: this covers all Eastern thought. Author has written extensively on Jung and the East, also taught in Singapore. Will appeal to non-specialists due to `history of ideas' approach: broad sweep.
Encounters With Qi
Author: David Eisenberg
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 1995-06-06
Total Pages: 274
ISBN-13: 9780393312133
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Bill Moyers visited China to explore the mysteries, and the healing potential, of Chinese medicine for his acclaimed PBS series "Healing and the Mind," he sought out David Eisenberg as his guide. For every reader fascinated by the seemingly fantastical aspects of Chinese medicine, from acupuncture addiction to Qi Gong martial arts, this captivating book offers deeper and more detailed encounters with the physicians and patients, the mystics and the martial artists, who were featured on television. Here is a sympathetic, yet objective appraisal of the concept of Qi (chee), the vital energy which is the unifying principle of Chinese medicine. Here are Chinese sages from the Yellow Emperor of 2700 B.C. to the very modern Dr. Fang, who remarks, "Acupuncture without Qi is only as effective as one man's sticking needles in another." And here are Chinese people from all walks of life as they seek relief, through a rebalancing of their Qi, their vital energy, for ailments from colds to cancer.
Veiled Encounters
Author: Michael Harrigan
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2008-01-01
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 9401206406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTravel narratives were the principal source of knowledge about the lands of the Near East and the Indian Ocean Basin in 17th-century France. Claiming the authority of first-hand observation, they paradoxically rely for their legitimization on the tropes of an established literary tradition. The status of these texts remained ambiguous, not least because of their anecdotal depictions of great riches, brutality or sexual promise. Drawing on the insights of post-colonial scholarship, this study tackles a question given scant attention in previous work and suggests that beyond the hazy representation of the Orient, an opposition emerges between the threatening Near East and the indolent East Indies. Distinguishing recognizable representations from those generated by new encounters, this book questions the feasibility of cultural representation through travel, exploring a large corpus of original sources written by French ecclesiastics, gentlemen-travellers, ambassadors and adventurers. Linguistic, religious, cultural or geographical barriers meant most travellers remained distanced from the peoples about whom they would simultaneously become authoritative. The encounter was further transformed in narratives that were intended to entertain and to satisfy the criterion of curiosité. The ‘Oriental’ that emerges is a supremely variable entity, alternately naked or veiled, barbaric or civilized, menacing or attractive.
Anglo-Chinese Encounters Since 1800
Author: Wang Gungwu
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2003-04-07
Total Pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780521534130
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA penetrating and sophisticated 2003 account of the relationship between China and imperial Britain.
Islam and Romantic Orientalism
Author: Mohammed Sharafuddin
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780755612352
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Did European writers and scholars create an image of the Islamic world as a place of tyranny, unreason and immorality destined to be subjected to and exploited by the civilized West? This book takes a fresh look at some of the main literary texts of the Romantic movement explored in Edward Said's classic work. Sharafuddin acknowledges wide areas of truth in Said's thesis, however, he argues that in the work of Southey, Byron, Moore and Landor, who began their careers under the sign of the French Revolution and declared their independence both from political tryanny and from national self-safisfaction, the world of Islam appears not just as an antithesis to the world of European civilization but as an alternative cultural reality with its own values."--Bloomsbury Publishing.
Perspectives of Mutual Encounters in South Asian History
Author: Jamal Malik
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 382
ISBN-13: 9789004118027
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe reciprocal relationship between colonialists and the colonised people of India, during the crucial period from 1760 to 1860, provides fascinating study material. This edited volume explores cultural colonialism by focussing on the ambivalent processes of reciprocal perceptions.
Culture of Encounters
Author: Audrey Truschke
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2016-03-01
Total Pages: 503
ISBN-13: 0231540973
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCulture of Encounters documents the fascinating exchange between the Persian-speaking Islamic elite of the Mughal Empire and traditional Sanskrit scholars, which engendered a dynamic idea of Mughal rule essential to the empire's survival. This history begins with the invitation of Brahman and Jain intellectuals to King Akbar's court in the 1560s, then details the numerous Mughal-backed texts they and their Mughal interlocutors produced under emperors Akbar, Jahangir (1605–1627), and Shah Jahan (1628–1658). Many works, including Sanskrit epics and historical texts, were translated into Persian, elevating the political position of Brahmans and Jains and cultivating a voracious appetite for Indian writings throughout the Mughal world. The first book to read these Sanskrit and Persian works in tandem, Culture of Encounters recasts the Mughal Empire as a polyglot polity that collaborated with its Indian subjects to envision its sovereignty. The work also reframes the development of Brahman and Jain communities under Mughal rule, which coalesced around carefully selected, politically salient memories of imperial interaction. Along with its groundbreaking findings, Culture of Encounters certifies the critical role of the sociology of empire in building the Mughal polity, which came to irrevocably shape the literary and ruling cultures of early modern India.
