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In 1810, the orientalist scholar Charles Stewart translated and published an extraordinary travel narrative written by a Persian-speaking Indian poet and scholar named Mirza Abu Talib Khan. At the turn of the century, Abu Talib travelled from India to Africa, and on to Ireland, England, and France, where he recorded his observations of European culture with wit and precision. The narrative's vital and controversial account of British imperial society is one of the earliest examples of a colonial subject addressing the cultural dynamics of metropolitan Britain, and its complex critique of empire challenges many preconceptions about intercultural relations during this era. Following his European sojourn, Abu Talib's remarkable Shi'ite pilgrimage through present day Turkey and Iraq further enhances his meditation on the encounter between Islam and European modernity.
This Broadview edition includes a critical introduction and chronologies of the lives and works of Mirza Abu Talib and Charles Stewart. The appendices offer contemporary reviews of the narrative, selections of British orientalist discourse, and examples of proto-ethnographic writing from the period.
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Mirza Abu Talib and Charles Stewart: A Brief Chronology
A Note on the Text
Travels of Mirza Abu Taleb Khan in Asia, Africa, and Europe, during the years 1799, 1800, 1801, 1802, and 1803
Appendix A: The Social Context
Mirza Abu Talib Khan, "Poem in Praise of Miss Julia Burrell" (1807)
The Duchess of Devonshire's Gala Breakfast, Morning Post and Gazetteer (7 and 8 July 1800)
The Lord Mayor's Feast, Oracle and Daily Advertiser (11 November 1800)
Appendix B: Contemporary Reviews
The Quarterly Review (August 1810)
The Eclectic Review (August 1811)
Appendix C: Persia: Orientalist Translations and Essays
From Sir William Jones, "A Persian Song of Hafiz" (1772)
From Sir William Jones, "Essay on the Poetry of the Eastern Nations" (1772)
From John Nott, Select Odes from the Persian Poet Hafez (1787)
Sir Willam Jones, "The Sixth Discourse; on the Persians" (1790)
Appendix D: Comparative Ethnographies
From Montesquieu, Persian Letters (1762)
From Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, Letters (1763)
From Charles Grant, "Observations on the State of Society among the Asiatic Subjects of Great Britain" (1792)
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