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Victorian Images of Islam / Clinton Bennett.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gorgias Islamic StudiesPublisher: Piscataway, NJ : Gorgias Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781607246732
  • 9781463222567
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Images in the Making -- 2. Charles Forster 1787-1871 -- 3. John Frederick Denison Maurice 1805-1872 -- 4. Reginald Bosworth Smith 1839-1908 -- 5. Sir William Muir 1819-1905 -- 6. William St Clair Tisdall 1859-1928 -- 7. John Drew Bate 1836-1923 -- 8. Conclusion: Dare to Know -- Appendix. The Taylor Controversy: A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Mission -- Selected Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Victorian perceptions of Islam were not monochrome; some saw beyond stereotypical images, others reproduced them. In this study, the accounts of six Victorians outline the contrast of the two perceptions. It suggests that presuppositions, not encounters per se, determine how we see cultural and religious others.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Foreword -- Abbreviations -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Images in the Making -- 2. Charles Forster 1787-1871 -- 3. John Frederick Denison Maurice 1805-1872 -- 4. Reginald Bosworth Smith 1839-1908 -- 5. Sir William Muir 1819-1905 -- 6. William St Clair Tisdall 1859-1928 -- 7. John Drew Bate 1836-1923 -- 8. Conclusion: Dare to Know -- Appendix. The Taylor Controversy: A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Mission -- Selected Bibliography -- Index

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Victorian perceptions of Islam were not monochrome; some saw beyond stereotypical images, others reproduced them. In this study, the accounts of six Victorians outline the contrast of the two perceptions. It suggests that presuppositions, not encounters per se, determine how we see cultural and religious others.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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