Description:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Masquerade, Engagement, and Skepticism: Richard Burton -- Chapter 2. Commitment and Loss: T. E. Lawrence -- Chapter 3. The Islamic Catholicism of Louis Massignon -- Chapter 4. Independence and Ambivalence: Chinua Achebe and Two African Contemporaries -- Chapter 5. Reflection, Mystery, and Violence: Orhan Pamuk -- Conclusion. Distance and Belonging -- Notes -- Index -- Acknowledgments