From Empire To Orient

Travellers to the Middle East 1830-1926

Bibliographic Data

ID23178802
AuthorsGeoffrey P Nash, Geoffrey Nash (0000-0002-0258-2513, corresponding author)
Year2005
Publication date2005-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
VenueFrom Empire To Orient (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherI.B.Tauris (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.5040/9780755608027
OpenAlexW4238728614
Open LibraryOL51655348M
ISBN9780755608027
LanguageEN
Citations received22

From Empire to Orient offers an alternative perspective on Britain's late imperial period by looking at the lives and the writings of the men who chose to defy the conventional social and political attitudes of the British ruling classes towards the Near East. Between the Greek revolt in 1830 and the fall of the Caliphate in 1924 a different kind of voice was heard that was both anti-Imperialist and pro-Islamic. Geoffrey Nash places David Urquhart’s passionate belief in the ideal of municipal government in Turkey, W.S. Blunt’s enthusiasm for the Egyptian reformers of the Azhar and Marmaduke Pickthall’s advocacy of the cause of the Young Turks into their political and historical context and into the context of their writings.

Ancient history · Archaeology · Caliphate · Context (archaeology) · Economic history · Empire · Enthusiasm · Far East · Government (linguistics) · Islam · Orient · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Theology · Classics · History · Islamic Studies and History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Law · Philosophy · Religious studies · Turkey's Politics and Society · 1840-1922 · Blunt, wilfred scawen · Great britain · Middle east · politics and government · Public opinion · Social movements

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