The Love of Strangers : : What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London /

The Love of Strangers : : What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London / / Nile Green.

In July 1815, six Iranian students arrived in London under the escort of their chaperone, Captain Joseph D'Arcy. Their mission was to master the modern sciences behind the rapid rise of Europe. Over the next four years, they lived both the low life and high life of Regency London, from being do...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press Complete eBook-Package 2016
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2015]
©2016
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (416 p.) :; 31 halftones. 3 maps.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introducing Mr. D'Arcy's Persians
  • Knowledge
  • Chapter One. In Search of a Teacher
  • Chapter Two. The Madrasas of Oxford
  • Faith
  • Chapter Three. Among the Dissenters
  • Chapter Four. Evangelical Engagements
  • Friendship
  • Chapter Five. Diplomatic Friendships
  • Chapter Six. The Love of Strangers
  • Afterlives
  • A Note on Sources and Method
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index

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