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The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan - In Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 (Paperback, Critical ed.)
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The Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan - In Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803 (Paperback, Critical ed.)
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In 1810, the orientalist scholar Charles Stewart translated and
published an extraordinary travel narrative written by a
Persian-speaking Indian poet and scholar named Mirza Abu Talib
Khan. At the turn of the century, Abu Talib travelled from India to
Africa, and on to Ireland, England, and France, where he recorded
his observations of European culture with wit and precision. The
narrative's vital and controversial account of British imperial
society is one of the earliest examples of a colonial subject
addressing the cultural dynamics of metropolitan Britain, and its
complex critique of empire challenges many preconceptions about
intercultural relations during this era. Following his European
sojourn, Abu Talib's remarkable Shi'ite pilgrimage through present
day Turkey and Iraq further enhances his meditation on the
encounter between Islam and European modernity. This Broadview
edition includes a critical introduction and chronologies of the
lives and works of Mirza Abu Talib and Charles Stewart. The
appendices offer contemporary reviews of the narrative, selections
of British orientalist discourse, and examples of
proto-ethnographic writing from the period.
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