| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 334 pages) |
| Series |
Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world |
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Edinburgh historical studies of Iran and the Persian world
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Contexts and Issues -- Race and Religion in Gobineau's Persia -- Ernest Renan's Search for a Religion of Modernity -- Edward Granville Browne and the Writing of Babi Narratives -- Empire and Orient: Baha'is in Russian Transcaspia and Palestine -- Orientalism and Modernity in Baha'i and Ahmadi writings -- Muslim Responses and a Future for Mahdi Movements |
| Summary |
"Religion, Orientalism and Modernity explores the emergence of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Baha'is and their conflict with mainstream Shi'a Muslims in Iran, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement in North India. It gives fresh insights into the writings that defined these innovatory movements, penned on the one hand by their proponents, and on the other by western interpreters."-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Geoffrey Nash is formerly Associate Professor at the University of Qatar and Research Associate at the School of African and Oriental Studies. He works in the areas of Postcolonial Studies, Travel Writing, Arab Anglophone and Muslim writing |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Ahmadiyya -- India
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Babism.
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Bahai Faith -- Iran
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HISTORY / Middle East / General.
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Ahmadiyya
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Babism
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Bahai Faith
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India
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Iran
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474451710 |
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1474451713 |
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9781474451703 |
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1474451705 |
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9781399513371 |
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1399513370 |
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