Download or read book The Islamic Middle East and Japan written by Renée Worringer and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Iranian and Ottoman travelers to Japan in the late nineteenth century found a model to admire - a culture that was beginning to take its place in the modern world without sacrificing its traditional culture. 1905. This collection provides fresh insight into the cross-cultural exchange between the Crescent and the Rising Sun in a rapidly changing world. linked cultures and the ensuing reciprocal influences in developing Eastern modernity against a looming backdrop of Western imperial domination.