Britain and the Muslim world : historical perspectives - Conference on "Britain and the Muslim World : Historical Perspectives" (2009 : University of Exeter); MacLean, Gerald M., 1952- (Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars, 2011)
Introduction : Britain and the Muslim world / Gerald MacLean -- British private traders in the Indian Ocean in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / Om Prakash -- Outrageous rites : early modern English encounters with Levantine religious rituals / Eva Johanna Holmberg -- "You will say they are Persian but let them be changed" : Robert and Teresa Sherley's embassy to the court of James / Kate Arthur -- Elihu Yale, the East India Company, and the problem with Madras / Rajani Sudan -- Anglo-Ottoman enlightenment? : Thoroughbreds and the public sphere / Donna Landry -- Turning Turk, turning heretic : Joseph Pitts of Exeter and the early enlightenment, 1640-1740 / Humberto Garcia -- Performance and performing in Lady Mary Wortley Montagu's letters from Istanbul, 1716-18 / Georgina Lock -- Alternatives to Orientalism? : Mary Wortley Montagu and her "Turkish" son" / Bernadette Andrea -- The Muslim world in British fictions of the nineteenth century / Robert Irwin -- Owen Jones and the Islamic world / Abraham Thomas -- The first Englishwoman on the Hajj : Lady Evelyn Cobbold in 1933 / William Facey -- Dr Sayyid Mutwalli ad-Darsh's fatwas for Muslims in Britain : the voice of official Islam? / Gerard Wiegers -- Manifesto for a new translation of the Qur'an / Ziad Elmarsafy -- Al Hadatha : race and identity in Palestinian early literature of resistance / Ahmed Masoud -- Peering around the "velvet curtain of culture" : the employment and housing of Newcastle-upon-Tyne's Muslim immigrants, 1960s-1990s / Sarah Hackett -- A duty to belong? : Muslim women of Cardiff as a case study / Marta Warat -- Interfaith dialogue and religious literacy prevent Christian-Muslim violence in the UK and US / Vincent Biondo -- Framing Muslims in British television drama : "realism" or stereotypes? / Peter Morey -- Muslims in the media / Tim Llewellyn.
Conference proceedings, 2009, University of Exeter.
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Keywords: Great Britain -- Relations -- Islamic countries -- Congresses; Islamic countries -- Relations -- Great Britain -- Congresses; Electronic books