Geoffrey Nash (Formerly the Universit Formerly Associate Professor

Broschiertes Buch

Religion, Orientalism and Modernity

Mahdi Movements of Iran and South Asia

Beschreibung

Geoffrey Nash explores the emergence of the revolutionary Babis and reformist Bahaâ is and their conflict with mainstream Shiâ a Muslims in Iran, and of the parallel Ahmadi movement in North India. Comparing these movements shows that, together, they define important aspects of Islamic modernity.

Autor

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. Among the many books he has authored/edited are: Orientalism and Literature (Cambridge University Press, 2019), Marmaduke Pickthall, Islam and the Modern World (Brill, 2017), Writing Muslim Identity (Continuum, 2012), Comte de Gobineau and Orientalism (Routledge, 2009) and From Empire to Orient: Travellers to the Middle East (I.B. Tauris, 2005).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Historical Studies of Iran and the Persian World
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. November 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 550g
• ISBN-13: 9781474451697
• ISBN-10: 1474451691
• Artikelnr.: 60002731