Victorian Images of Islam / / Clinton Bennett.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2015
• VerfasserIn: Bennett, Clinton,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Gorgias Islamic Studies
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (216 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Foreword --; Abbreviations --; Preface --; 1. Introduction: Images in the Making --; 2. Charles Forster 1787-1871 --; 3. John Frederick Denison Maurice 1805-1872 --; 4. Reginald Bosworth Smith 1839-1908 --; 5. Sir William Muir 1819-1905 --; 6. William St Clair Tisdall 1859-1928 --; 7. John Drew Bate 1836-1923 --; 8. Conclusion: Dare to Know --; Appendix. The Taylor Controversy: A Critique of Nineteenth-Century Mission --; Selected Bibliography --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463222567; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463222567
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Clinton Bennett.

Victorian perceptions of Islam were not monochrome; some saw beyond stereotypical images, others reproduced them. In this study, the accounts of six Victorians outline the contrast of the two perceptions. It suggests that presuppositions, not encounters per se, determine how we see cultural and religious others.