Acknowledgments
Notes on Transliteration
Chapter 1: Writing Travel, Making Genre
Chapter 2: The Reluctant Tourist: Mirza Abul Hasan Khan and his
'Book of Wonder'
Chapter 3: Long Day's Journey into Night: Mirza Fattah Khan
Garmrudi's accounts of Europe 68
Chapter 4: The Traveling King: Nasir al-Din Shah and his Books of
Travel
Chapter 5: A Darvish and a Merchant walk into Europe: The
Popularization of Travel of Writing 155
Conclusion
Bibliography
Naghmeh Sohrabi is Associate Director for Research at Brandeis University's Crown Center for Middle East Studies.
"Long neglected both as a literary genre and as a rich source of
historical information, Persian travel literature is just beginning
to attract the critical and analytical attention it has always
deserved. With its sophisticated theoretical anchoring and its
nuanced discussion of nineteenth-century Iranian travelogues, Taken
for Wonder stands to give rise to a new understanding of the part
that this uniquely important type of writing has played in
processes of contact, cross-fertilization, and modeling that keeps
cultures in constant back and forth glances." --Ahmad
Karimi-Hakkak, University of Maryland
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