Eothen / / Alexander Kinglake.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Kinglake, Alexander,
• MitwirkendeR: Dingle, Alison,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Exploring the House of Islam: Perceptions of Islam in the Period of Western Ascendancy 1800-1945
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (262 p.)

Given the twenty-first century association between the Holy Land and the Bible, we may assume that such a relationship just exists, and that the land is like the Book and contains a timeless quality. Eothen requires us to question this supposition. Alexander Kinglake describes a Palestine which is largely a wilderness on the verge of being defined by the political and religious forces of the west. He offers us a glimpse into the past of a society as it begins to engage with the West.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- SERIES FOREWORD: EXPLORING THE HOUSE OF ISLAM: PERCEPTIONS OF ISLAM IN THE PERIOD OF WESTERN ASCENDANCY 1800-1945 -- ALEXANDER KINGLAKE, EOTHEN -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- EOTHEN -- I. Over the Border. -- II. Journey from Belgrade to Constantinople -- III. Constantinople -- IV. The Troad -- V. Infidel Smyrna -- VI. Greek Mariners -- VII. Cyprus -- VIII. Lady Hester Stanhope -- IX. The Sanctuary -- X. The Monks of the Holy Land -- XI. From Nazareth to Tiberias -- XII. My first Bivouac -- XIII. The Dead Sea -- XIV. The Black Tents -- XV. The Black Tents -- XVI. Terra Santa -- XVII. The Desert -- XVIII. Cairo and the Plague -- XIX. The Pyramids -- XX. The Sphynx -- XXI. Cairo to Suez -- XXII. Suez -- XXIII. Suez to Gaza -- XXIV. Gaza to Nablous -- XXV. Mariam -- XXVI. The Prophet Damoor -- XXVII. Damascus -- XXVIII. Pass of the Lebanon -- XXIX. Surprise of Satalieh