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Green, Nile

 
9780691168326: The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
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ISBN 10 : 0691168326 ISBN 13 : 9780691168326
Editeur : Princeton University Press, 2015

Synopsis

How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London

In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D'Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen's England.

Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford.

The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships.

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À propos de l'auteur

Nile Green is professor of history at UCLA. His many books include Sufism: A Global History. He lives in Los Angeles.

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Éditeur
Princeton University Press
Date d'édition
2015
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0691168326
ISBN 13 
9780691168326
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
416
Coordonnées du fabricant
Princeton University Press
https://press.princeton.edu/books

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