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ابوطالب خان: گزیده هایی از «مسیر طالبی»، در ایرلند، انگلستان، فرانسه

Posted on June 19, 2014 by gita

گزیده هایی از گزیده هایی از «مسیر طالبی» ، به کوشش حسین خدیوجم، تهران، کتابهای جیبی، ۱۳۵۲ talibi-01-cover-intros talibi-02-Biginning-of-trip-to-farang talibi-03-binoculars-gold talibi-04-whale-cold talibi-05-comparisons-slaves talibi-06-slaves talibi-07-cheated talibi-08-going-to-irland talibi-09-irish-poor talibi-10-irish-house-entrances talibi-11-nightlight talibi-12-noise-of-coaches talibi-13-statues talibi-14-caricatures-spectacle talibi-15-snow-maturity talibi-16-nightlife-silent-servers talibi-17-entering-london talibi-18-meetings-education talibi-19-oxford-henry-the-8th talibi-20-university-anatomy talibi-21-the-hunt talibi-22-british-museum talibi-23-ousely-confrontation…

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Joseph Emin, 2: landed in paradise

Posted on May 16, 2014 by gita

Excerpts from Emin, Joseph. Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin, An Armenian, Written in English by Himself. Retrieved from Archive.Org 10/02/2014. Corrected through comparison with Emin, Joseph. Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin, An Armenian, Written in English by Himself.…

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Joseph Emin, 1: the ship sets sail (1751)

Posted on May 15, 2014 by gita

Excerpts from Emin, Joseph. Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin, An Armenian, Written in English by Himself. Retrieved from Archive.Org 10/02/2014. Corrected through comparison with Emin, Joseph. Life and Adventures of Joseph Emin, An Armenian, Written in English by Himself.…

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Joseph Emin: notes and sources

Posted on May 14, 2014 by gita

Joseph Emin (1726-1809) was born in Hamadan, Persia, in an Armenian family that, according to his memoirs, were uprooted from Armenia, a few generations before Joseph’s birth, by one of Shah Abbas’s campaigns. When he was a child of five,…

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Sampsonia, 5: the “honourable company”

Posted on May 13, 2014 by gita

Excerpts from Wright, Denis. The Persians Amongst the English: Episodes in Anglo-Persian History. London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 1985. Pp 1-9 A note on the source: Perhaps because this book was published in 1985, height of anti-Iran sentiments in the…

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Sampsonia, 4: and Shakespeare

Posted on May 9, 2014 by gita

Excerpts from Ghani, Cyrus. Shakespeare, Persia, and the East. New York: Mage Publishers, 2007. In 1600 Queen Elizabeth had chartered a commercial company named the East India Company, which was given monopoly of trade between East and West. In 1615…

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Sampsonia, 3: thrice worthy and undaunted lady Teresia

Posted on May 9, 2014 by gita

Excerpts from Shirley, Evelyn Philip. The Sherley brothers, an historical memoir of the lives of Sir Thomas Sherley, Sir Anthony Sherley, and Sir Robert Sherley, knights (1848). Retrieved from Archive.Org 05/04/2014 That Robert Sherley had attained a competent knowledge of…

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Sampsonia, 2: silk trade, image and fashion

Posted on May 9, 2014 by gita

Excerpt below are from: Arthur, Kate. “‘You will say they are Persian but let them be changed’: Robert and Teresa Sherley’s Embassy to the court of James.” In MacLean, G. ed. Britain and Muslim World: Historical Perspectives. Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars…

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Sampsonia, 1: tracing a Persianate woman’s agency

Posted on May 8, 2014 by gita

So far, this has been the most challenging part of this project. It’s detective work, following leads and threads, often in endnotes and footnotes. There are only two articles, both written by Bernadette Andrea, that somewhat feature Sampsonia (Sanpsonia) aka…

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Sampsonia aka Teresia Sherley: notes and sources

Posted on May 2, 2014 by gita

[updated 08/05/2014 with additional sources] Although Sampsonia (also spelled Sanpsonia), a Circassian woman who married Robert Sherley and went to Europe with him is not the first Persian in Europe, she is the first woman whose name is mentioned in…

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