Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800
Alam, Muzaffar
Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800 /Muzaffar Alam - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 - xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
9780521129558
Saras Books :2/31, Ansari Road Darya Ganj Delhi 110002
History
Geography & travel
Geography of & travel in Asia
Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Asia, Central.
915.40425 ALA
Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries, 1400-1800 /Muzaffar Alam - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2007 - xvi, 399 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
A work based on readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a vista of cultural and material history. --From publisher's description
9780521129558
Saras Books :2/31, Ansari Road Darya Ganj Delhi 110002
History
Geography & travel
Geography of & travel in Asia
Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Asia, Central.
915.40425 ALA
