Table of contents for Arabian mirrors and western soothsayers : nineteenth-century literary approaches to Arab-Islamic history / Muhammed A. Al-Da'mi.

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Acknowledgments
Preface
Chapter I
Introduction: The Roots of an Idea: The Nineteenth Century
and Its Legacy
Chapter II
The Nineteenth Century: Broadening the Prospect:
Historians, Orientalists and Imaginative Writers
Chapter III
Arab Heroism for Victorian Britain: Carlyle's Contrasts
of Faith and Doubt
Chapter IV
Civilization vs. Barbarism: Newman's Catholic Reading
of Arab-Islamic History
Chapter V
The Theme of "Rise and Decline" in Irving's
Mahomet and His Successors
Chapter VI
Granada's Rise and Decline and the Self-Reflective
Basis of Irving's Moorish Histories
Chapter VII
Finale: Perspectives
Notes
Bibliography