Images of Arabs and Islam in Burton’s Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah
Abdulkarim Mohammad Alseadoon,
Geoffrey Nash
Abstract:The study aimed to discuss the position of Arabs and Islam in Western culture, concentrating on the British Victorians whose main conception of Arabia concerned the desert and the exotic orient. The increasing political and economic interest of the British government in Arabia led to more focus on Muslim Arabs in the Near East and the Arabian Peninsula, beginning with Napoleon’s conquest of Egypt c. 1799, and escalating as Suez and the Ottoman Empire became more intertwined with the British imperialism. Missio… Show more
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