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Taken For Wonder Nineteenthcentury Travel Accounts From Iran To Europe 1st Edition Naghmeh Sohrabi

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Taken For Wonder Nineteenthcentury Travel Accounts From Iran To Europe 1st Edition Naghmeh Sohrabi instant download after payment.

Publisher: Oxford University Press

File Extension: PDF

File size: 9.19 MB

Pages: 192

Author: Naghmeh Sohrabi

ISBN: 9780199829705, 0199829705

Language: English

Year: 2012

Edition: 1

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Taken For Wonder Nineteenthcentury Travel Accounts From Iran To Europe 1st Edition Naghmeh Sohrabi by Naghmeh Sohrabi 9780199829705, 0199829705 instant download after payment.

Accounts of travel to far-flung places have deservedly gripped the imagination of readers for centuries. Yet travelogues can reveal much more than the customs of a foreign land; they can also serve as a window into the culture and concerns of their place of origin. Drawing on a series of
travel narratives by Iranian visitors to Europe in the nineteenth century, Taken for Wonder illustrates how these writings reflect the complicated political agendas of diplomats, merchants, kings, and others during the Qajar Dynasty.
Using texts that correspond to four monarchic reigns in this period, the book shifts the traditional framework of analysis from the act of travel to that of writing travel. Hayratnamah (The Book of Wonder), an Iranian ambassador's account of his visit to the court of King George III, provides the
first example. Sohrabi's reading reveals a narrative calculated to reinforce the grandeur and stability of the Qajars to its Persian readers rather than merely recount the lifestyle of the English court. Similarly, the political motives at work in Mirza Fattah Khan Garmrudi's accounts of his
European journey are explored in light of Britain's 1837 occupation of Iran. A subsequent chapter considers the ways Nasir al-Din Shah, the longest reigning Qajar monarch, viewed his European travelogues as a tool for domestic politics and international diplomacy. The study concludes with two
travel accounts by non-government officials, demonstrating how the genre became a mode for critiquing the Qajar Dynasty and instigating political reform at the close of the nineteenth century.