Historic Engagements with Occidental Cultures, Religions, Powers

TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: 'Recovering Oriental Perspectives on the West' Iraj Omidvar and Anne R. Richards Part One: Central and Eastern Europe Chapter One: 'Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Crystal Palace' Roger Chapman Chapter Two: 'Ubeydullah Effendi in the United States: The Impressions of an Ottoman Intellectual Regarding the 1893 Chicago World's Fair' Birgül Koçak-Ostev Part Two: Western Asia Chapter Three: 'The Moor's First Sight: An Arab Poet in a Ninth-Century Viking Court' Nizar Hermes Chapter Four: 'Imperial Narratives: Islamic Concepts of Inclusion and Exclusion in Ibn Fadlan's Account of his Mission to the Bulgars' Nina Berman Chapter Five: 'Two Muslim Travelers to the West in the Nineteenth Century' Ahmed K. Al-Rawi Part Three: South Asia Chapter Six: 'Ajaib?t-e-Farang: Yousuf Khan Kambalposh's Metropolitan Journey and Ways of Seeing the West' Masood Ashraf Raja Chapter Seven: 'The International Colour Line Has Been Challenged:' Solidarity Networks in Indian Travel Narratives" Anupama Arora Chapter Eight: 'Reactions of Two Bengali Women Travelers: Krishnobhabini Das and Chitrita Devi' Nupur Chaudhuri Chapter Nine: 'Chinese Culture and Western Technology: Qi Zhaoxi's Writings about the United States' Junjie Luo Part Four: Southeast and Eastern Asia Chapter Ten: 'Balinese Art, Religion, and Community in the Netherlands' Ana Dragojlovic Chapter Eleven: 'Shigetsu Sasaki: Zen Vagabond in the United States' Claudia Milstead Chapter Twelve: 'Un-canning the Canny: McDonald's Japan and the Mr. James Saga' Ed Chan Conclusion: 'Religion, Transculturalism, and Consciousness' Anne R. Richards