Mohammad tavalleai

[ 1 ] - Female Persian Scholars' Resistance to "The Orientalist Construction of Persia": A Critique of James Morier's The Adventure of Hajji Baba of Ispahan

The Western fascination with Persia, intensified though it was by the nineteenth century obsession with Indo-European languages, extends back into the classical origins of European culture. As Edward Said notes, Aeschylus' The Persians demonstrates how deeply embedded in the European mind is the belief in Persia's quintessential status as an Oriental society. For many Orientalists Persia demons...