Selective memory: an analysis of albums compiled at the return of the 1904 Younghusband mission into Tibet

10.32920/ryerson.14662362.v1 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Catherine Lachowskyj

Keyword(s):

Literature Survey ◽

Colonial History ◽

The West ◽

Provenance Information ◽

The Third ◽

Photographic Analysis ◽

History Of

Focusing on a collection of albums at the Archive of Modern Conflict related to the Younghusband Mission in Tibet (1903-1904), this thesis explores the the analysis of personal albums and their contribution to the history of the Mission. The first chapter, a literature survey, outlines the existing textual histories of the invasion, highlighting the absence of photographic analysis in the works, while also highlighting Tibet’s absence from contemporary criticisms of colonial photography. The second chapter is an overview of the visual conventions ascribed to Tibetans in British India’s photography prior to the Younghusband Mission, and the third chapter provides provenance information and detailed descriptions of the AMC’s albums. Finally, the fourth chapter discusses the objects, revealing their contribution to the perpetuation of Tibetan tropes, implicit visual documentation of British superiority, and the development of constructed narratives favouring the British colonizers. Each analysis acts as an example of how photographs should be used to articulate the colonial history of not only the Younghusband Mission, but of Tibet’s greater history with the West.

Studying the Qurʾan: Neither Here nor There

Method & Theory in the Study of Religion ◽

10.1163/15700682-12341509 ◽

2020 ◽

pp. 1-8

Author(s):

Sarah A. Qidwai

Keyword(s):

History Of Science ◽

Science And Religion ◽

Complex Nature ◽

The West ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

Colonial Encounters

Abstract This paper addresses three aspects of Majid Daneshgar’s monograph Studying the Qurʾan in the Muslim Academy. The first part looks at the complexities around the lack of coherence between the Muslim Academy and so-called “Western” Institutions. Drawing on some examples from my own life, I will address the hesitance to embrace sources from the West as highlighted by Daneshgar. Then, I will present an example from the “Western Academy” that speaks to a broader audience across this divide. The second part of this paper will address the phenomenon of trying to find scientific proofs in the Qur‘an and the issues around those attempts in the field of the history of science and religion. Drawing on my own research, the third part of this reflection will draw on the example of Islam in India to show the complex nature of the so-called Muslim Academy and its ties to colonial encounters.

Wanted: A Comparative History of the Modern Mediterranean

Review of Middle East Studies ◽

10.1017/s2151348100002986 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 46 (1) ◽

pp. 47-53

Author(s):

Edmund Burke

Keyword(s):

Sixteenth Century ◽

Third World ◽

Dominant Role ◽

The West ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

The Mediterranean ◽

The Third World

There is something seriously flawed about models of social change that posit the dominant role of in-built civilizational motors. While “the rise of the West” makes great ideology, it is poor history. Like Jared Diamond, I believe that we need to situate the fate of nations in a long-term ecohistorical context. Unlike Diamond, I believe that the ways (and the sequences) in which things happened mattered deeply to what came next. The Mediterranean is a particularly useful case in this light. No longer a center of progress after the sixteenth century, the decline of the Mediterranean is usually ascribed to its inherent cultural deficiencies. While the specific cultural infirmity varies with the historian (amoral familism, patron/clientalism, and religion are some of the favorites) its civilizationalist presuppositions are clear. In this respect the search for “what went wrong” typifies national histories across the region and prefigures the fate of the Third World.

Islam and the West

Philosophy & Social Criticism ◽

10.1177/0191453712447998 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 38 (4-5) ◽

pp. 477-483 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Akeel Bilgrami

Keyword(s):

Point Of View ◽

Clash Of Civilizations ◽

The West ◽

Religious Identities ◽

The Third ◽

Third Person ◽

History Of ◽

Short Essay ◽

The Third Person ◽

Western Media

This short essay analyzes the deception and self-deception in talk of ‘the clash of civilizations’ and proceeds to diagnose what is wrong in the standard understanding of Islam in the Western media today by looking to the abiding history of colonial relations with Islam down to this day and also looking to the relation between ideals of democracy and the formation of religious identities. The essay closes with some remarks about the nature of identity and the importance to one's own agency of the distinction between the first and the third person point of view in Muslim self-understanding.

MANJU NOBLE AND WEST: PRINCE HOŠOI DELENGGE FAMILY

BULLETIN Series Historical and socio-political sciences ◽

10.51889/2021-1.1728-5461.19 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 68 (1) ◽

Author(s):

А. Kaihe ◽

Keyword(s):

Life Experience ◽

Academic Research ◽

Reference Value ◽

Western Civilization ◽

The West ◽

Personal Learning ◽

The Third ◽

Academic Achievements ◽

History Of ◽

The Relationship

There is limited research on the relationship between the Manju aristocrats in the Ch’ing Empire and the West. As the only family in the Ch’ing Empire that continued to focus on Western academic research, the emergence and existence of the Hošoi Delengge Family and the continued cognition and understanding of the Manju Group and the absorption of Western civilization in the history of the Ch’ing Empire should have special era significance and historical reference value. At a time when the research on the history of the relationship between officials and merchants in the coastal Han people and Westerners in the Ch’ing has attracted much attention, the author of this article argues that it is necessary to select Yihui, the third-generation owner of his family, as the research object, and investigate his life experience and personal learning. It analyzes the specific thoughts and academic achievements embodied in the process of understanding Western civilization, combining family history documents and official documents to draw a relatively complete image of the Manju aristocracy who actively learns and absorbs Western civilization. Investigate the formation and development of a handful of academic families among the Manju aristocrats who are minority of foreign races.

British occupation of Iraq study in its political development (1917- 1927)

ALUSTATH JOURNAL FOR HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES ◽

10.36473/ujhss.v222i1.377 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 222 (1) ◽

pp. 253-268

Author(s):

Dr. Mohamed Abdullah Kaka Sur

Keyword(s):

Ottoman Empire ◽

Political Development ◽

The Political ◽

The West ◽

The Third ◽

British Occupation ◽

Historical Factors ◽

Historical Importance ◽

History Of

Occupation of Britain has had a significant impact on the history of Iraq. Even after the establishment of the Iraqi state in 1921 and the effects of this occupation existed. On this basis, one of the historians used the term Iraq - British royal rule in the period. So, important to know what are the historical factors which led to Britain occupy Iraq, beyond the historical trend of the state and the fundamental changes which led to the establishment of the Iraqi state. In this study, entitled (the historical reasons for the occupation of Iraq, Britain to study the political development between the years 1917 to 1920). Which ensures the number of vertical axes, the first axis looking for strategic importance of Iraq and the situation in Iraq under the leadership of the Ottoman Empire. The second axis tells Britain's occupation of Iraq, the third axis either looking for agreements made between Iraq and Britain the first, second and third.The fourth axis looking for challenging the Iraqis against the British occupation and private revolted in 1920, including the role of the Kurds in this revolution. In fact, with the reasons for strategic and economic, historical factors have had an important role in the occupation of Iraq with the causes and factors which mentioned were overlapping, Baghdad was the capital of Iraq through the stories of One Thousand and One Nights was written in the West and known Babylon was one of the oldest cities, which have been mentioned in Holy book by the West, so intertwined historical importance Wares in the cause of Britain's occupation of Iraq

Muslim Communities in North America

American Journal of Islam and Society ◽

10.35632/ajis.v12i1.2394 ◽

1995 ◽

Vol 12 (1) ◽

pp. 114-118

Author(s):

Omar Altalib

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

The United States ◽

Religious Studies ◽

Immigrant Communities ◽

Ethnic Communities ◽

The West ◽

History Of Religion ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

Muslim Communities

This book, which is a collection of 22 articles by 25 authors, is appropriatefor undergraduate courses on religion in the United States, religiousminorities, immigrant communities, the history of religion, and the sociologyof Islam and Muslims. The first part contains five articles on religiouscommunities, the second part has nine articles on the mosaic of Islamiccommunities in major American metropolitan centers, and the third partconsists of eight articles on ethnic communities in metropolitan settings.Each part should have been a separate book, as this would have made thebook less bulky and more accessible to those who are interested in onlyone of the areas covered.Reading this book makes it clear that there is great need for Muslimscholars to study and analyze their own communities, which have a richhistory and have only been studied recently. Books such as this are animportant contribution to the understanding of Muslims in the West andalso serve to clear up many misconceptions about Muslims, a developmentthat makes interfaith and intercommunity dialogue easier.Part 1 begins with an article on the Shi'ah communities in NorthAmerica by Abdulaziz Sachedina (professor of religious studies, University ...

O prvoj monografskoj obradi škrinje Svetog Šimuna u Zadru

Ars Adriatica ◽

10.15291/ars.437 ◽

2011 ◽

pp. 187

Author(s):

Marijana Kovačević

Keyword(s):

Twentieth Century ◽

Seventeenth Century ◽

The Body ◽

Early Date ◽

The Third ◽

Monographic Study ◽

History Of ◽

Very High ◽

Do So

This paper paraphrases the first monographic study of the silver casket which was commissioned in the last quarter of the fourteenth century as a reliquary for the body of St Simeon in Zadar. The author of the monograph ‘The Silberschrein des S. Simeone in Zara’ is Alfréd Gotthold Meyer, an art historian from Berlin. The manuscript was written in German, translated into Hungarian and published in Budapest in 1894. Both the manuscript and the book are available only in a few copies in Croatia and this was one of the incentives for writing this article, apart from the need to introduce and evaluate one of the key works ever written on this important subject, and to do so in a more detailed manner than it had been done before. Meyer divided the material in five chapters. In the first chapter he deals with the traditions about the relic. The second chapter is a summary of the documents concerning the history of the silver casket. In the third chapter Meyer describes the reliefs on the casket and discusses their iconography, while in the fourth chapter he analyses them stylistically and attempts to reconstruct the original arrangement of particular reliefs. The final, fifth chapter is the most important part of this work, because it emphasizes comparisons between the Zadar casket and similar works in Italy and Dalmatia. The book has all the qualities of a scholarly text which is rather surprising for such an early date. Meyer pointed out a number of key notions about the supposedly different authors of particular reliefs, for example several master pieces of Italian painting and sculpture which may have inspired these authors, and he also noted the important seventeenth-century restoration on the casket. A. G. Meyer set very high scholarly standards with his work, which were rarely achieved in many subsequent publications on the casket, especially during the first half of the twentieth century.

British Tramp Shipping, 1750-1914

10.5949/liverpool/9780973007343.001.0001 ◽

2003 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Robin Craig

Keyword(s):

United Kingdom ◽

Capital Formation ◽

The West ◽

Copper Ore ◽

The Third ◽

The United Kingdom ◽

History Of ◽

Tramp Shipping

This study explores the history of tramp-shipping in the United Kingdom, between 1750 and 1914. It defines ‘tramp’ as steamships exclusively hulled with iron or steel. The purpose of the journal is to keep the history of tramp-shipping from fading into obscurity, as the author believes the tramp steamer does not invoke sentimentality nor provide enough glamour to sustain the same level of maritime interest enjoyed by sailing ships or ocean liners. The study is split into four major sections, the first concerning tramp-shipping, ownership, and capital formation; the second concerning trade, specifically copper ore and African guano; the third studies tramp seamen - particularly sea masters; and the final and largest section considers individual tramp-shipping regions, further subdivided by region - Wales, the Northwest, the West Country, the Northeast, the Southeast, and Canada. The volume is punctuated with statistics, tables, charts, glossaries, and concludes with a bibliography of author Robin Craig’s further maritime writing.

Three Enemies of Russia: Dmitrii Galkovskii and Strategies of “Enemification” in Contemporary Russian Nationalism

Nationalities Papers ◽

10.1017/nps.2018.2 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 47 (2) ◽

pp. 280-295

Author(s):

Ivan Vladimirovich Bobrov ◽

Dmitry Alekseevich Mikhailov

Keyword(s):

International Relations ◽

Moral Justification ◽

Colonial Administration ◽

The West ◽

The Third ◽

History Of ◽

British Colonial ◽

Modern Russian

AbstractThis article focuses on ideological constructions of contemporary nationalism shaped by the influence of Dmitrii Galkovskii. At the dawn of the Russian Internet, Galkovskii’s website, Samizdat, became the birthplace for intellectuals of contemporary Russian nationalism who emerged around Voprosy natsionalizma magazine and the online magazine Sputnik i Pogrom. Enemification strategies described in this article are understood as forms of self-representation of contemporary Russian nationalism. The goal of this article is to characterize one of the ideologies of contemporary Russian nationalism, which serves as a moral justification for some odious manifestations—xenophobia and racism. Three forces are characterized by contemporary Russian nationalists as the most dangerous challenges for the nation: the West, internal enemies, and migrants. Traditional and fundamental anti-Western rhetoric has turned into Anglophobia in the ideology of contemporary Russian nationalism. The most profound evidence might be found in Galkovskii’s conception of the history of international relations. This idea is also used when defining the internal enemy. Caucasians have taken the place of Russian nationalism’s previous main internal enemies, Jews, and are treated as representatives of the British colonial administration. The third enemy of modern Russian nationalism is migrants. They are seen as tools of the degradation policy toward Russians.