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Don Juan. Don Juan of Persia: A Shi`ah Catholic, 1560-1604. London, Routledge Curzon, 2005 (reprinting of 1926 edition), 355 p., index, maps.

Year: 2007

Type: article

Abstract: In 1599, a Persian embassy was organized and dispatched by Šāh ‘Abbās I to the Vatican and a number of European imperial courts. A well-known account of this embassy appears in Don Juan of Persia, allegedly written by the Persian secretary Uluġ Beg, and often understood as one of the first Persian travel accounts of Europe. This embassy of some 40-50 personages, traveling via the Caspian Sea and Russia, began to fray at the edges as the nominal chief ambassador Ḥusayn ‘Alī Beg bickered const...

Source: Abstracta Iranica

DOI: 10.4000/abstractairanica.17712

Author: Colin Mitchell

Institutions: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Mondes Iranien et Indien

Language: English

Topic: Travel Writing and Literature

Subfield: History

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W217009677

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