A Princess's Pilgrimage - Brossura

Begum, Nawab Sikanadar

Brossura

ISBN 10: 1847740014 ISBN 13: 9781847740014

Casa editrice: Kube Pub Ltd, 2007

Riassunto

In 1870, Nawab Sikander Begum of Bhopal became the first South-Asian Muslim woman to publish an account of her pilgrimage to Mecca. She travelled with a retinue of a thousand, visited Jeddah and Mecca, performed the requisite rituals and observances, then returned to India and wrote her witty and acerbic impressions of her visit. Reproduced here, A Princess’s Pilgrimage to Mecca is the original English translation by the wife of British colonial officer of an unpublished Urdu manuscript. It is accompanied by a critical Introduction and Afterword that make this offering a comprehensive resource on trvael writing by South-Asian Muslim women, and encourage the reader- whether scholar, student or enthusiast – to rethink established understandings relating to travel writing colonialism and world history.

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L'autore

SIOBHAN LAMBERT-HURLEY is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Nottingham Trent University. Her research focuses on women, gender and Islam in South Asia with a particular emphasis on education, social and political organizations, the culture of travel, missionaries and autobiographical narratives. Her other publications include. Muslim Women, Reform and Princely Patronage: Nawab Sultan Jahan Begam of Bhopal (2997) and Rhetoric and Reality: Gender and the Colonial Experience in South Asia (Co-edited with Avril A. Powell, 2006)

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Kube Pub Ltd
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1847740014
• ISBN 13: 9781847740014
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 254
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• Persona responsabile: non disponibile