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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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Orientalism’s amnesia

From Refashioning Iran, p 18: The formation of Orientalism as an area of European academic inquiry was grounded on a “genesis amnesia” that systematically obliterated the dialogic conditions of its emergence and the production of its linguistic and textual tools.

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