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Intellectual precedence, appropriation and theft

Posted on February 6, 2014 by gita

From Refashioning Iran, p 20-32, a list of precedences, appropriations and thefts: During his residence in India between 1755 and 1761, Anquetil-Duperon was trained to read and decipher Pahlavi texts by Zoroastrian scholard Dastur Darab bin suhrab, also known as…

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East-West differentiation

Posted on February 6, 2014 by gita

From Refashioning Iran, p20: The modular histories of Orientalism grounded exclusively in a European context the intellectual contributions of Anquetil-Duperron (1731-1805), Sir William Jones (1746-94), and other “pioneering” Orientalists. This historiographical selection played a strategic role in constituting “the West”…

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