Islam

The article contains two linked analyses, of FitzGerald as a translator and of Omar as a thinker. She calls the former's rendering a poem on Omar, rather than a translation of his work, and points...

MC was impartially critical of various Hindu , Muslim , and Parsi practices, but realised that her reforms had to proceed without attempting to convert Indian women from their religion. She was convinced that Christianity

In a preface MC remarks on the difficulties, for Western women, of penetrat[ing] into the secluded lives of their Eastern sisters. In a tone sympathetic to Islam and not condemning the harem system, she thanks...

A play by NES entitled God Resigns in the Summit Meeting was prematurely destroyed by its Arabic publishers at police insistence (though it had been published in English), on grounds of insult to Islam ...

As monarch, she maintained a remarkably wide-ranging correspondence. She wrote her first letter to a Muslim sovereign, the Great Sophie of Persia (the Savafid emperor), in 1561.

The reception in Izmir of MF and her associates shows that Quakers were as unacceptable to the English establishment abroad as at home. Her celebrated audience with Mehmet IV was reported in print a few...

Her parents, she said (who were both members of the land-owning class, though in her father's case with strong egalitarian sympathies), had such a sensitive awareness of the next world that the permissible conveniences of...

RF nevertheless argued that the Senussi in general, and Emir Sidi Idris in particular, were not necessarily hostile to the British: they were merchants; they had found that moving skins and ivory abroad for sale...

Forbes's interviewee, a brigand and a powerful political manager in Morocco (which was currently a Spanish protectorate), masterminded more than one strategic kidnapping of a westerner. She preserves the biblical flavour which El Raisuni 's...

RF sets out with a brisk account of the 675 Indian princely States, which involves her in a summary of Indian history and some speculation about the future. The various strands in her political thinking...

With this exception, JK shows herself moderately accepting of different cultures. She discusses the caste system (which, apart from the deplorable condition of the untouchables, she finds not uncongenial to eighteenth-century notions of the benefits...

Thomas's work, as translated by Kindersley, is interesting for its bald opening statement of women's dilemma, in all countries and ages . . . everywhere . . . adored and oppressed. It notes that...

As an English boy and then man in India, Rudyard must have been constantly aware of his status as one of the white race and administrative ruling class. His earliest memories of India were impressions...

EL 's protagonist is Kaspar Sefarian, a young American-Armenian who travels from New York to work at the Armenian College in Vosdân. He has an American fiancée (bearing the highly suggestive name of Faith...

HL opens by contrasting Madrid, which she calls modern, insignificant, and cheap (not in prices but in effect) with Toledo, which she finds silent, romantic, and magnificently faithful to its past. She...