The Persian Mirror : Reflections of the Safavid Empire in Early Modern France

Name: The Persian Mirror
Brand: Oxford University Press Inc
SKU: 9780190884796
Price: 17550 KES
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ISBN: 9780190884796

by Susan Mokhberi

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Format Hardback

ISBN-10 0190884797

ISBN-13 9780190884796

Publisher Oxford University Press Inc

Imprint Oxford University Press Inc

Country of Manufacture GB

Country of Publication GB

Publication Date Jan 14th, 2020

Print length 240 Pages

Weight 544 grams

Dimensions 16.00 x 23.60 x 2.30 cms

Product Classification: European history Middle Eastern history

KSh 17,550.00

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This exploration of France's preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century uses diplomatic sources, fiction and images to describe how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. It revises our notions of orientalism and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.

The Persian Mirror explores France''s preoccupation with Persia in the seventeenth century. Long before Montesquieu''s Persian Letters, French intellectuals, diplomats and even ordinary Parisians were fascinated by Persia and eagerly consumed travel accounts, fairy tales, and the spectacle of the Persian ambassador''s visit to Paris and Versailles in 1715. Using diplomatic sources, fiction and printed and painted images, The Persian Mirror describes how the French came to see themselves in Safavid Persia. In doing so, it revises our notions of orientalism and the exotic and suggests that early modern Europeans had more nuanced responses to Asia than previously imagined.

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