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A groundbreaking work based on detailed and sensitive readings of travel accounts in Persian, dealing with India, Iran, and Central Asia between about 1400 and 1800. This is the first comprehensive treatment of this neglected genre of literature (safar nama) that links the Mughals, Safavids and Central Asia in a crucial period of transformation and cultural contact. The authors' close reading of these travel-accounts help us enter the mental and moral worlds of the Muslim and non-Muslim literati who produced these valuable narratives. These accounts are presented in a comparative framework, which sets them side by side with other Asian accounts, as well as early modern European travel-narratives, and opens up a rich and unsuspected vista of cultural and material history. This book can be read for a better understanding of the nature of early modern encounters, but also for the sheer pleasure of entering a new world.

Travelers' writings, Persian --- Ecrits de voyageurs persans --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- India --- Iran --- Asia, Central --- Inde --- Asie centrale --- Description and travel --- Early works to 1800. --- Descriptions et voyages --- Ouvrages avant 1800 --- History and criticism --- 910.4 <55> --- 910.4 <540> --- Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Iran --- Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----India --- 910.4 <540> Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----India --- 910.4 <55> Ontdekkingsreizen. Reizen. Expedities. Reisverhalen----Iran --- Regional documentation --- Non-fiction --- Indo-European literature --- anno 1500-1799 --- anno 1400-1499 --- Central Asia --- Persian travelers' writings --- Persian literature --- Soviet Central Asia --- Tūrān --- Turkestan --- West Turkestan --- Asia --- Travelers' writings, Persian - History and criticism --- India - Description and travel - Early works to 1800 --- Iran - Description and travel - Early works to 1800 --- Asia, Central - Description and travel - Early works to 1800