Persophilia : : Persian Culture on the Global Scene / / Hamid Dabashi.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Dabashi, Hamid,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Edition: Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

From antiquity to the Enlightenment, Persian culture has been integral to European history. Interest in all things Persian shaped not just Western views but the self-image of Iranians to the present day. Hamid Dabashi maps the changing geography of these connections, showing that traffic in ideas about Persia did not travel on a one-way street.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- 1. Distant Memories of the Biblical and Classical Heritage -- 2. Montesquieu, the Bourgeois Public Sphere, and the Rise of Persian Liberal Nationalism -- 3. Sir William Jones, Orientalist Philology, and Persian Linguistic Nationalism -- 4. Goethe, Hegel, Hafez, and Company -- 5. From Romanticism to Pan- Islamism to Transcendentalism -- 6. Nietzsche, Hafez, Mozart, Zarathustra, and the Making of a Persian Dionysus -- 7. Edward FitzGerald and the Rediscovery of Omar Khayyám for Persian Nihilism -- 8. Matthew Arnold, Philosophical Pessimism, and the Rise of Iranian Epic Nationalism -- 9. James Morier, Hajji Baba of Ispahan, and the Rise of a Proxy Public Sphere -- 10. Picturing Persia in the Visual and Performing Arts -- 11. E. G. Browne, Persian Literature, and the Making of a Transnational Literary Public Sphere -- 12. Persica Spiritualis: Nicholson, Schimmel, Corbin, and Their Consequences -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index