Based on lectures delivered in Chichester Cathedral, this book mirrors typical nineteenth century English attitudes toward the non-European space. This needed Christianity and European political oversight, or its people would remain backward and spiritually lost. The book shows how someone whose inclinations were liberal could look at Islam and dislike what he saw. On the other hand, the book also shows that a non-specialist scholar in the second half of the nineteenth century could write seriously if not impartially about Islam using material available in European languages. This suggests that Islam was a subject of increasing interest in Victorian England.
- ISBN10 1607244128
- ISBN13 9781607244127
- Publish Date 27 October 2009
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Gorgias Press
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 200
- Language English