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Title
Persia and the enlightenment
Type
Text
Monograph
Contribution
Masroori, Cyrus (Editor)
Mannies, Whitney (Editor)
Laursen, John Christian (Editor)
Voltaire Foundation (Issuing body)
Subject
Orientalism in literature (LCSH)
Orientalism--Europe, Western--History--18th century (LCSH)
East and West in literature (LCSH)
Enlightenment--Europe, Western (LCSH)
Public opinion--Europe, Western--History--18th century (LCSH)
Great Britain--Intellectual life--18th century (LCSH)
France--Intellectual life--18th century (LCSH)
Iran--In literature (LCSH)
Language
English
Illustrative Content
Illustrations
Geographic Coverage
Classification
DDC: 809/.935855820.93585 full (Source: 23)
LCC: PN56.3.O74 P47 2021 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)
Supplementary Content
bibliography
index
Content
text
Summary
"Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in representing the "Other" against which European identity has been constructed. What makes the case of Persia unique in this process of identity formation is the ambivalent attitude that Europe has shown in its imaginary about Persia. Persia is arguably the nation of "the Orient" most referred to in Early Modern European writings, frequently mentioned in various discourses of the Enlightenment including theology, literature, and political theory. What was the appeal of Persia to such a diverse intellectual population in Enlightenment Europe? How did intellectuals engage with the 'facts' about Persia? In what ways did utilizing Persia contribute to the development of modern European identities? In this volume, an international group of scholars with diverse academic backgrounds has tackled these and other questions related to the Enlightenment's engagement with Persia. In doing so, Persia and the Enlightenment questions reductionist assessments of Modern Europe's encounter with the Middle East, where a complex engagement is simplified to a confrontation between liberalism and Islam, or an exaggerated Orientalism. By carefully studying Persia in the Enlightenment narratives, this volume throws new light on the complexity of intercultural encounters and their impact on the shaping of collective identities" -- Provided by publisher.
Table Of Contents
Introduction / Cyrus Masroori and Whitney Mannies
The background : European knowledge of Persia before the Enlightenment / Cyrus Masroori and John Christian Laursen
Religious tolerance, intolerance, and absolutism in Safavid Persia and their representations in early Enlightenment European travel literature / John Marshall
Persian theology and the checkmate of Christian theology : Bayle and the problem of evil / Marta García-Alonso
Oriental patriotism? Eighteenth-century French representations of Nadir Shah / Rolando Minuti
The tolerant Persia in Montesquieu's Persian letters / Antônio Carlos dos Santos
George Lyttelton's Letters from a Persian : Persia and politics in eighteenth-century English fiction / Cyrus Masroori
Voltaire and Persia, or how to use Orient against Occident / Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet
Persia in Diderot's Encyclopédie / Whitney Mannies
"Peuplade estimable" : late-eighteenth-century radical critics of religion and the Ghebres / Erica J. Mannucci.
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Persia and the enlightenment
Admin Metadata
Generation Process: DLC marc2bibframe2 v2.5.0
Status: changed
Encoding Level: minimal
Identified By: bf:Local, 22383213 bf:Local, 020265733
Change Date: 2022-05-05T07:06:04
Creation Date: 2022-01-14
Description Language: English
Description Modifier: United States, Library of Congress
Description Authentication: LC Copy Cataloging
Assigner: YDX