No choice but to travel : Safavid travelogues written in Persian

Kiyanrad, Sarah (2020): No choice but to travel : Safavid travelogues written in Persian. In: Kiyanrad, Sarah; Sauer, Rebecca und Scholz, Jan (Hrsg.): Islamische Selbstbilder : Festschrift für Susanne Enderwitz. Heidelberg: Heidelberg University Publishing. S. 273-297

Abstract

This paper introduces twenty-two Persian travelogues dating from the Safavid era (1501–1722), which can roughly be divided into three categories; private travels, missions, and pilgrimages. It aims to show that Safavid travelogues, a hitherto somewhat neglected literary phenomenon, form part of a Persian travelogue tradition and that the accounts often comprise relevant autobiographical information. Since the travelogues’ contents, tropes and forms are however partly a result of (evolving) lit­erary standards of travel writing, it is often only through a close reading that we are able to uncover—or at least catch a glimpse of—the authors’ Selbstbilder.

• Dokumententyp: Buchbeitrag
• Fakultät: Kulturwissenschaften > Department für Kulturwissenschaften und Altertumskunde
• Themengebiete: 900 Geschichte und Geografie > 950 Geschichte Asiens
• ISBN: 978-3-947732-19-7 ; 978-3-947732-18-0
• Ort: Heidelberg
• Sprache: Englisch