This book examines the life of George Strachan (1572 1635), early
17th-century Scottish Humanist scholar, Orientalist and traveller.
Drawing on a wealth of newly discovered archival material to offer
new insights into Strachan's life and work, it also utilises recent
scholarship on the relationship between the cultures and religions
of East and West. Tom McInally explains the voyages that the
Catholic exile took to many of the Catholic courts of Europe as a
scholar and spy before turning eastwards to embark upon a 22-year
journey around the Ottoman, Safavid and Mughal empires. By becoming
fully literate in Arabic and Farsi, Strachan was able to gain a
unique knowledge of Eastern societies. His collection of Arabic and
Farsi texts on Islam, philosophy and humanities which he translated
and sent to Europe for the advancement of European knowledge of
Islam and Islamic societies became Strachan's real intellectual
legacy
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