Europe and the Eastern other : comparative perspectives on politics, religion and culture before the Enlightenment / Hassan Bashir.
Europe and the Eastern Other critically evaluates and supports the argument for adopting an inter-cultural 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...
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| Language: | English |
| Published: | Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2013] |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: towards a more inclusive discipline of political theory
- Between Euro-centrism and Euro-denial: the case for comparative political theory
- No people and a foolish nation: the thirteenth-century Mongol empire through European eyes
- Wise men of the Franks: Jesuit missionaries at the court of Indian Emperor Akbar the Great
- Delusions of celestial perfection: the encounter between Jesuit missionaries and the Chinese literati in early modern China
- Conclusions: otherness, canonicity, and comparative political theory.