Author: Giovanni FinatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara;
Author: Giovanni FinatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara
Author: Giovanni FinatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arabian Peninsula
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara, Who, Under the Assumed Name of Mahomet, Made the Campaigns Against the Wahabees for the Recovery of Mecca and Medina, and Since After Acted as Interpreter to European Travellers in Some of the Parts Least Visited of Asia and Africa
Author: Giovanni FinatiNarrative of the Life and Adventures of Giovanni Finati, Native of Ferrara
Author: Giovanni FinatiPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Middle East
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
The Gentleman's Magazine: Or, Monthly Intelligencer
Author: Edward CavePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Books and bookselling
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Conflicted Antiquities
Author: Elliott CollaPublisher: Duke University Press
ISBN: 9780822390398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 364
Book Description
Conflicted Antiquities is a rich cultural history of European and Egyptian interest in ancient Egypt and its material culture, from the early nineteenth century until the mid-twentieth. Consulting the relevant Arabic archives, Elliott Colla demonstrates that the emergence of Egyptology—the study of ancient Egypt and its material legacy—was as consequential for modern Egyptians as it was for Europeans. The values and practices introduced by the new science of archaeology played a key role in the formation of a new colonial regime in Egypt. This fact was not lost on Egyptian nationalists, who challenged colonial archaeologists with the claim that they were the direct heirs of the Pharaohs, and therefore the rightful owners and administrators of ancient Egypt’s historical sites and artifacts. As this dispute developed, nationalists invented the political and expressive culture of “Pharaonism”—Egypt’s response to Europe’s Egyptomania. In the process, a significant body of modern, Pharaonist poetry, sculpture, architecture, and film was created by artists and authors who looked to the ancient past for inspiration. Colla draws on medieval and modern Arabic poetry, novels, and travel accounts; British and French travel writing; the history of archaeology; and the history of European and Egyptian museums and exhibits. The struggle over the ownership of Pharaonic Egypt did not simply pit Egyptian nationalists against European colonial administrators. Egyptian elites found arguments about the appreciation and preservation of ancient objects useful for exerting new forms of control over rural populations and for mobilizing new political parties. Finally, just as the political and expressive culture of Pharaonism proved critical to the formation of new concepts of nationalist identity, it also fueled Islamist opposition to the Egyptian state.
Catalogue
Author: W. Heffer & SonsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Booksellers' catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 60
Book Description
The Atheneum
Author: The Spirit of the English Magazines
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 506
Book Description
NON-MUSLIMS IN MAKKAH AND MADINAH ( 1503 - 1853 ) (IIUM PRESS)
Author: Spahic OmerPublisher: IIUM PRESS
ISBN: 9674913394
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
This book investigates the accounts of six European non-Muslims who managed to secretly visit the cities of Makkah and Madinah and to record their travels as well as impressions. The protagonists were Ludovico di Varthema from Italy, Vincent le Blanc from France, Joseph Pitts from England, Ali Bey el Abbassi (Domenec Francese Jordi Badia i Leblich) from Spain, John Lewis Burckhardt from Switzerland, and Richard Francis Burton from England. The six men performed their feats in their capacities as adventurers, explorers, soldiers, and spies. One yet was a slave. The visits spanned a period of three and a half centuries, from 1503 as the time of the first visit by Ludovico di Varthema, to 1853 as the time of the visit by Richard Francis Burton. The period covered was perhaps one of the most dramatic periods in the history of the Hijaz region in particular, and also in the history of Islam-West (Orient-Occident) relations, in general. The visits and the travellers' accounts reveal much about challenges faced by Islamic culture and civilization in early modem times. Those challenges pertained to the rise of Western civilization and its imperialistic tendencies, modernization, radical anti-Islamic polemics, the waning of Islamic civilization, and Muslim schism.