TY  - BOOK
AU  - Green,Nile
TI  - The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London 
SN  - 9780691168326
AV  - DA125.I68 G74 2016eb
U1  - 942.107/3092B 23
PY  - 2015///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - East and West
KW  - Friendship
KW  - England
KW  - History
KW  - 19th century
KW  - Iranians
KW  - Travel
KW  - Muslims
KW  - Students, Foreign
KW  - HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Introducing Mr. D'Arcy's Persians --; Knowledge --; Chapter One. In Search of a Teacher --; Chapter Two. The Madrasas of Oxford --; Faith --; Chapter Three. Among the Dissenters --; Chapter Four. Evangelical Engagements --; Friendship --; Chapter Five. Diplomatic Friendships --; Chapter Six. The Love of Strangers --; Afterlives --; A Note on Sources and Method --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being down and out after their abandonment by D'Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen's England.Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford.The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships
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