Intelligent Souls?
Intelligent Souls?

Author: Samara Anne Cahill

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2019-05-17

Total Pages: 245

ISBN-13: 1684480973

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Intelligent Souls? offers a new understanding of Islam in eighteenth-century British culture. Samara Anne Cahill's ambitious study explores two separate but overlapping strands of thinking about women and Islam in the eighteenth century which produce the phenomenon of "feminist orientalism." One strand describes seventeenth-century ideas about the nature of the soul used to denigrate religio-political opponents, and the other tracks the transference of these ideas to Islam during the Glorious Revolution and the Trinitarian controversy of the 1690s.

India in Early Modern English Travel Writings
India in Early Modern English Travel Writings

Author: Rita Banerjee

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2021-07-15

Total Pages: 287

ISBN-13: 9004448268

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Comparing the variant ideologies of the representations of India in seventeenth-century European travelogues, India in Early Modern English Travel Narratives concerns a relatively neglected area of study and often overlooked writers. Relating the narratives to contemporary ideas and beliefs, Rita Banerjee argues that travel writers, many of them avid Protestants, seek to negativize India by constructing her in opposition to Europe, the supposed norm, by deliberately erasing affinities and indulging in the politics of disavowal. However, some travelogues show a neutral stance by dispassionate ethnographic reporting, indicating a growing empirical trend. Yet others, influenced by the Enlightenment ideas of diversity, demonstrate tolerance of alien practices and, occasionally, acceptance of the superior rationality of the other's customs.

Turkey and the European Union
Turkey and the European Union

Author: P. Levin

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2011-06-20

Total Pages: 455

ISBN-13: 0230119573

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This book carefully examines the historical roots of contemporary Western prejudices against both Muslims and Turks, and presents an original theory of collective identity as dramatic re-enactment as a means of understanding the remarkable persistence of medieval stereotypes.