Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West
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Thomas M. Prymak
About this book
For decades, Ukrainian contacts with the outside world were minimal, impeded by politics, ideology, and geography. But prior to the Soviet period the country enjoyed diverse exchanges with, on the one hand, its Islamic neighbours, the Crimean Khanate and the Ottoman Empire, and, on the other, its central and western European neighbours, especially Poland and France.
Thomas Prymak addresses geographical knowledge, international travel, political conflicts, historical relations with religiously diverse neighbours, artistic developments, and literary and language contacts to smash old stereotypes about Ukrainian isolation and tell a vivid and original story. The book treats a wide range of subjects, including Ukrainian travellers in the Middle East, from pilgrims to the Holy Land to political exiles in Turkey and Iran; Tatar slave raiding in Ukraine; the poetry of Taras Shevchenko and the Russian war against Imam Shamil in the High Caucasus; Ukrainian themes and the French writers Honoré de Balzac and Prosper Mérimée; Rembrandt's mysterious painting today titled The Polish Rider; and Ilya Repin's legendary painting of the Zaporozhian Cossacks writing their satirical letter mocking the Turkish sultan.
Drawing together political and cultural history, languages and etymology, and folklore and art history, Ukraine, the Middle East, and the West is an original interdisciplinary study that reintroduces Ukraine's long-overlooked connections beyond Eastern Europe.
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Front Matter
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Contents
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Preface
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Acknowledgments
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Abbreviations
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Ukrainian History in Context
1 - A Complex History: Ukraine and the Dar al-Islam
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From Abbot Daniel to Count Potocki: Middle East Travel to 1800
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From the “Emir” to the Metropolitan: Middle East Travel (1800–1914)
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Tatar Slave Raiding and Turkish Captivity in Ukrainian History and Legend
57 - A People Finds Its Voice: Maksymovych and Shevchenko
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Maksymovych and the National Awakening
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Shamil, Shevchenko, and the Chef-d'oeuvre, “The Caucasus”: A Poem as Seen from Afar
101 - From Paris to Verkhivnia and the Sich: The French Connection
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All about Ève: The Realist Balzac's Ukrainian Dreamland
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La Guzla, Gogol, and the Cossacks: Prosper Mérimée Looks East
133 - Contested Canvases: Rembrandt's Polish Rider and Repin's Satirical Cossacks
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Deciphering Rembrandt's Polish Rider
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Message to Mehmed: Repin Creates His Zaporozhian Cossacks
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Dmitrii E. Mishin on the “Saqaliba” in the Medieval Muslim World
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“Orientalisms” in Ukrainian, Polish, and Russian
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Shevchenko and the Muslims
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Notes
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Index
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