Book contents
- Reversing the Colonial Gaze
- The Global Middle East
- Reversing the Colonial Gaze
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Mr. Shushtari Travels to India
- 2 Mirza Abu Taleb Travels from India
- 3 An Ilchi Wonders about the World
- 4 A Colonial Officer Is Turned Upside-Down
- 5 A Shirazi Shares His Travelogues
- 6 A Wandering Monarch
- 7 Hajj Sayyah Leads a Peripatetic Life
- 8 In the Company of a Refined Prince
- 9 A Wandering Mystic
- 10 In and out of a Homeland
- 11 The Fact and Fiction of a Homeland
- 12 Professor Sayyah Comes Home to Teach
- Conclusion
- Index
Conclusion
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 December 2019
- Reversing the Colonial Gaze
- The Global Middle East
- Reversing the Colonial Gaze
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Mr. Shushtari Travels to India
- 2 Mirza Abu Taleb Travels from India
- 3 An Ilchi Wonders about the World
- 4 A Colonial Officer Is Turned Upside-Down
- 5 A Shirazi Shares His Travelogues
- 6 A Wandering Monarch
- 7 Hajj Sayyah Leads a Peripatetic Life
- 8 In the Company of a Refined Prince
- 9 A Wandering Mystic
- 10 In and out of a Homeland
- 11 The Fact and Fiction of a Homeland
- 12 Professor Sayyah Comes Home to Teach
- Conclusion
- Index
Summary
In my Conclusion, I bring all my observations together for a final reflection by first looking at two related texts by a prominent Shi’i cleric: Agha Najafi Quchani’s (1878–1943) Siyahat-e Sharq/Journey to the East and Siyahat-e Gharb/Journey to the West. While Siyahat-e Sharq is an autobiography of the author, Siyahat-e Gharb is a fictional journey to the land of ghosts and spirits after death. The combination of these two “travelogues” by an author who really did not travel much beyond his homeland and to Iraq to study Shi’i jurisprudence is a remarkable testimony to the power of “journey” as a metaphor for an entirely different imaginative geography upon which learned people of this time mapped out their lives and existence.
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- Reversing the Colonial GazePersian Travelers Abroad, pp. 361 - 373Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2020