Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Contents V
3. List of Illustrations VII
4. Introduction 1
5. Chapter 1. Consul’s Son. From Jerusalem Childhood to Lonely Adolescence in Germany 39
6. Chapter 2. Amanat’s Indar Sabha and the Beginnings of a Career. Hindustani Theatre in British Imperialism, Indian Nationalism and German Orientalistik 77
7. Chapter 3. Sword of the Dragoman. Immersion in an Embattled Region 130
8. Chapter 4. Knowledge in Political Negotiations. Three Diplomatic Encounters 181
9. Chapter 5. The International Orientalist Congresses in Hamburg in 1902 and Copenhagen in 1908. Celebrations and Agendas of Politics and Scholarship 256
10. Chapter 6. Omar Khayyam’s Ruba’iyat and Rumi’s Masnavi Interpreted. The Politics and Scholarship of Translating Persian Poetry 340
11. Chapter 7. Karl May’s Jihad? Knowledge in German Orient Policy 392
12. Chapter 8. Fall of the Eagle. Reformulations 462
13. Conclusion 515
14. Bibliography 539
15. Acknowledgements 605
16. Index 610