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

Ahmed Al-Rawi, Rustaq College of Applied Sciences, OmanAnupama Arora, University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, USANina Berman, The Ohio State University, USARoger Chapman, Palm Beach Atlantic University, USANupur Chaudhuri, Texas Southern University, USAAna Dragojlovic, Australian National University, USANizar Hermes, Princeton University, USABirgul Koçak, Istanbul University, TurkeyJunjie Luo, Dickinson College, USAClaudia Milstead, University of Northern Colorado, USAMasood Ashraf Raja, University of North Texas, USA