TY  - BOOK
AU  - Dabashi,Hamid
TI  - Persophilia: Persian Culture on the Global Scene 
SN  - 9780674495777
U1  - 955 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Cambridge, MA : 
PB  - Harvard University Press, 
KW  - East and West
KW  - Orientalism
KW  - Europe
KW  - History
KW  - Postcolonialism
KW  - Social movements
KW  - Transnationalism
KW  - HISTORY / Middle East / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; 1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage --; 2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism --; 3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism --; 4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company --; 5. From Romanticism to Pan- Islamism to Transcendentalism --; 6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus --; 7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism --; 8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism --; 9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere --; 10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts --; 11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere --; 12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences --; Conclusion --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Index; restricted access
N2  - From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street
UR  - https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674495777
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