The Islamic Middle East and Japan : perceptions, aspirations, and the birth of Intra-Asian modernity

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The Islamic Middle East and Japan : perceptions, aspirations, and the birth of Intra-Asian modernity

Renée Worringer, editors

Markus Wiener Publishers, c2007

  • : pbk.
  • : hard

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"Reprinted from Princeton Papers: Interdisciplinary Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, volume XIV."

Includes bibliographical references

Contents of Works

  • The first contact between Japanese and Iranians as seen through travel diaries / Hideaki Sugita
  • East meets east : an Ottoman mission in Meiji Japan / Michael Penn
  • The Japanese nation in arms : a role model for militarist nationalism in the Ottoman army, 1905-1914 / Handan Neżir-Akmeşe
  • Japan's progress reified : modernity and Arab dissent in the Ottoman Empire / Renée Worringer
  • Pan-islam and "yellow peril" : geo-strategic concepts in Salafī writings prior to World War I / Thomas Eich
  • Beyond Eurocentrism? Japan's Islamic studies during the era of the greater East Asia War (1937-1945) / Ceṁil Aydin

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: hard ISBN 9781558764064

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Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire - a culture that was beginning to take its place in the modern world without sacrificing its traditional culture. Their admiration was bolstered when Japan sunk the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905. This victory was celebrated across the Middle East, and dispelled the traditional colonial discourse of European supremacy. No longer, Japan had proven, did modernization demand Westernization. The Japanese, in turn, were drawn to cross-cultural understanding as Islamic traders and merchants arrived in their ports, and became a part of their social and economic fabric. Later in the twentieth century, Japan found it expedient to develop its own model of Islamic studies, as Muslim populations in Manchuria, China and Southeast Asia fell under Japanese control. This collection provides fresh insight into the cross-cultural exchange between the Crescent and the Rising Sun in a rapidly changing world. The authors explore the encounters between these two separate, but fatefully linked cultures and the ensuing reciprocal influences in developing ""Eastern modernity"" against a looming backdrop of Western imperial domination.
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: pbk. ISBN 9781558764071

Description

Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire - a culture that was beginning to take its place in the modern world without sacrificing its traditional culture. Their admiration was bolstered when Japan sunk the Russian Baltic fleet in 1905. This victory was celebrated across the Middle East, and dispelled the traditional colonial discourse of European supremacy. No longer, Japan had proven, did modernization demand Westernization. The Japanese, in turn, were drawn to cross-cultural understanding as Islamic traders and merchants arrived in their ports, and became a part of their social and economic fabric. Later in the twentieth century, Japan found it expedient to develop its own model of Islamic studies, as Muslim populations in Manchuria, China and Southeast Asia fell under Japanese control. This collection provides fresh insight into the cross-cultural exchange between ""the Crescent and the Rising Sun"" in a rapidly changing world. The authors explore the encounters between these two separate, but fatefully linked cultures and the ensuing reciprocal influences in developing ""Eastern modernity"" against a looming backdrop of Western imperial domination.

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