Europe and the Eastern Other
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Europe and the Eastern Other

Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion and Culture before the Enlightenment

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Europe and the Eastern Other

Comparative Perspectives on Politics, Religion and Culture before the Enlightenment

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Europe and the Eastern Other critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an intercultural or comparative approach in western political theory. Hassan Bashir examines the encounters between Europeans and their eastern others before the European Enlightenment and illustrates that the West's cultural others have played a foundational role in developing a distinct western cultural self-understanding. This analysis includes records of eyewitness accounts of European visitors in Eastern lands during the medieval and early modern periods, including William of Rubruck's account of the Mongol lands in mid-thirteenth century, observations of the first Jesuit mission in the court of Mughal Indian emperor Akbar the Great, and circumstances in late Ming China as recorded in the journals of Jesuit missionary and scholar Matteo Ricci. This work illustrates the dynamism and complexity involved in an inter-cultural encounter and highlights the fact that cultural self-understanding is often deeply rooted in how we understand our cultural others.

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Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Chapter One: Introduction
  3. Chapter Two: Between Euro-Centrism and Euro-Denial
  4. Chapter Three: “No People and a Foolish Nation”Scriptural phrase (Deuteronomy 32:21 and Romans, 10:19) employed by William of Rubruck to describe the Mongols. William (1990) p. 139.
  5. Chapter Four: “Wise Men of the Franks”Persian: Dānāyāni Farang —The term used to honor either the king of Portugal or Spain in the invitation to begin friendly relations between Europe and India; written by Abul Fazl at Akbar’s behest. See Haider (1998) pp. 8, 10–11. According to Koch the letter was definitely addressed to Philip II of Spain, see (1982) p. 15.
  6. Chapter Five: “Delusions of Celestial Perfection”Karl Marx on China, see his “[Trade or Opium?] Published in New York Daily Tribune on September 20, 1858. Available online at http://www.marxists.org/archive/marx/works/1858/09/20.htm. Last accessed June 7, 2012.
  7. Chapter Six: Conclusions
  8. References
  9. Index