A Voyage to Modernism: Syed Ahmed Khan

Name: A Voyage to Modernism: Syed Ahmed Khan
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ISBN: 9789380607078

ISBN-10: 9380607075

ISBN-13: 9789380607078

Edition: 2011

Authors: Syed Ahmed Khan

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The nature of Muslim knowledge concerning the West through travel accounts makes for fascinating reading. The eighteenth-century encounters of Munshi Ihtisamuddin and Mirza Abu Taleb Khan, embedded in their travelogues, however, seem very distant and less urgent. With Syed Ahmed, however, begins an entirely new phase with his interplay between Muslims and the West, on the one hand, and between Islam and Christianity, on the other. Even though his portrait of England is sometimes facile, his account of his travels opens the door to new questions, particularly because this was the period when the relations between Europeans and Indians were at the centre of many debates. Consequently,…

Book details

List price: $59.95
Copyright year: 2011
Publisher: Midpoint Trade Books Inc
Binding: Cloth Text
Pages: 256
Size: 6.50" wide x 9.75" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English