Appendix A Dmitrii E. Mishin on the “Saqaliba” in the Medieval Muslim World

Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Abbreviations xv
6. Figures xvii
7. Ukrainian History in Context 1
8. A Complex History: Ukraine and the Dar al-Islam
9. From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800 23
10. From the “Emir” to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800–1914) 36
11. Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend 57
12. A People Finds Its Voice: Maksymovych and Shevchenko
13. Maksymovych and the National Awakening 81
14. Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, “The Caucasus”: A Poem as Seen from Afar 101
15. From Paris to Verkhivnia and the Sich: The French Connection
16. All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland 119
17. La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East 133
18. Contested Canvases: Rembrandt's Polish Rider and Repin's Satirical Cossacks
19. Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider 153
20. Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks 173
21. Dmitrii E. Mishin on the “Saqaliba” in the Medieval Muslim World 201
22. “Orientalisms” in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian 204
23. Shevchenko and the Muslims 213
24. Notes 217
25. Index 293