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  • Conclusion

  • Hamid Dabashi, Columbia University, New York
  • Book:
    Reversing the Colonial Gaze
    Published online:
    19 December 2019
    Print publication:
    16 January 2020, pp 361-373

  • 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.