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Armenian liberator or Persianate traveler?

In passing, Tavakoli-Targhi lists Joseph Emin as another Iranian traveler to Europe who wrote an account of his journey: Joseph Emin (1726-1809), a native of Hamadan, was another traveler who visited England in 1751 and wrote an account of his

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Intellectual precedence, appropriation and theft

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

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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