Viewing the Islamic Orient

Laisram uses a critical analysis of the travel accounts of four British travelers during the nineteenth century to examine and question Edward Said's concept of "Orientalism" and "Orientalist" discourse. She builds a powerful argument that westerners often struggled with their own conceptions of the orient.

Pallavi Pandit Laisram is at the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, Hyderabad, India. She has been Adjunct Faculty, Montgomery College, Maryland, USA, and has just returned to India after completing her Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State University, USA.

Introduction: Viewing the Islamic Orient 1. 'English Gentlemen Say, Hajji baba Very Clever Book': The Shifts in the Work of James Morier 2. Alexander Kinglake: 'The Eternal Ego that I am' 3. Captain Sir Richard Francis Burton: 'The Hajji from the Far-North' 4. Gertrude Bell: The Romantic