Persia and the enlightenment /

"Since the 5th century BCE Persia has played a significant part in representing the "Other" against which European identity has been constructed. What makes the case of Persia unique in this process of identity formation is the ambivalent attitude that Europe has shown in its imaginar...

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Other Authors: Laursen, John Christian (Editor), Mannies, Whitney (Editor), Masroori, Cyrus (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: [Liverpool] : Liverpool University Press on behalf of Voltaire Foundation, University of Oxford, [2021]
Series:Oxford University studies in the Enlightenment ; 2021:09
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505 0 0 |t Introduction /  |r Cyrus Masroori and Whitney Mannies --  |t The background : European knowledge of Persia before the Enlightenment /  |r Cyrus Masroori and John Christian Laursen --  |t Religious tolerance, intolerance, and absolutism in Safavid Persia and their representations in early Enlightenment European travel literature /  |r John Marshall --  |t Persian theology and the checkmate of Christian theology : Bayle and the problem of evil /  |r Marta García-Alonso --  |t Oriental patriotism? Eighteenth-century French representations of Nadir Shah /  |r Rolando Minuti --  |t The tolerant Persia in Montesquieu's Persian letters /  |r Antônio Carlos dos Santos --  |t George Lyttelton's Letters from a Persian : Persia and politics in eighteenth-century English fiction /  |r Cyrus Masroori --  |t Voltaire and Persia, or how to use Orient against Occident /  |r Myrtille Méricam-Bourdet --  |t Persia in Diderot's Encyclopédie /  |r Whitney Mannies --  |t "Peuplade estimable" : late-eighteenth-century radical critics of religion and the Ghebres /  |r Erica J. Mannucci 
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