Russia and Iran in the great game : travelogues and Orientalism /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2007.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in Middle Eastern history ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents only |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Setting the stage
- 2. Orientalism Russian style
- The concept of Orientalism : Western European version
- Russian national identity and Russian Orientalism
- 3. Overview of the Russian travelogues and their authors
- Pre-nineteenth Century Russian travelogues about Iran
- The main features of the Russian travelogues about Iran in the nineteenth and early twentieth Centuries
- The authors of the travelogues
- 4. The travelers' missions in Iran
- Russian military aims and activities in Iran
- Russian diplomacy in Iran
- Russian emigrants in Iran
- Russian trade in Iran
- 5. The travelers' self-representation vis-à-vis the Oriental "other" and the British "self"
- 6. The "travelees" : representation of Iran and her people by the Russian travelers
- "Power of the gaze"
- The "travelees" : manners and morals
- 7. The "travelees" : education, culture and society
- The Iranian army
- Lack of education
- Iranian medicine
- Iranian arts and architecture
- Iran as "a country of ruins"
- 8. Islam as perceived by the Russian travelers
- Mullahs, dervishes and sayyeds
- Shiʼi and Sunni Muslims
- Iranians and "infidels"
- Muslim customs and rituals
- 9. Gender and ethnicity
- Iranian women and prosaic harems
- The travelers' religious and ethnic preferences
- 10. Travelers and travelees : Russians through Iranian eyes as imagined by the travelers (discourse with themselves)
- 'Anti-Romanticism'
- Conclusion
- Appendix : Iran before World War I
- Appendix : travelogues.