The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen's London
By Nile Green
4/5
()
About this ebook
How a group of Iranian students sought love and learning in Jane Austen's London
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 down and out after their abandonment by D’Arcy to charming their way into society and landing on the gossip pages. The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England.
Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath. But there was more than frivolity to their student years in London. Burdened with acquiring the technology to defend Iran against Russia, they talked their way into the observatories, hospitals, and steam-powered factories that placed England at the forefront of the scientific revolution. All the while, Salih dreamed of becoming the first Muslim to study at Oxford.
The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships.
Related to The Love of Strangers
Related ebooks
The Ismaili Assassins: A History of Medieval Murder Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Middle East Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5English Travellers of the Renaissance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Islamic Context of The Thousand and One Nights Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Love in the Time of Revolution: Transatlantic Literary Radicalism and Historical Change, 1793-1818 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMaking the Modern Middle East: Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Crime and Punishment in Istanbul: 1700-1800 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsInventing William of Norwich: Thomas of Monmouth, Antisemitism, and Literary Culture, 1150–1200 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Debate on the Crusades, 1099–2010 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIn Light of Another's Word: European Ethnography in the Middle Ages Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsIslam and Romanticism: Muslim Currents from Goethe to Emerson Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBrave New Words: The Power of Writing Now Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsOne novel...a lot of Novels: brief history of the novel in English language Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Bit Between My Teeth: A Literary Chronicle of 1950-1965 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wireless in the Corner: A boy’s eye view of London in peace and war Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSolomon Maimon: An Autobiography. Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsThe Arabian Nights: A Companion Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSuleiman the Magnificent 1520-1566 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMedieval People Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLivingstone's 'lives': A metabiography of a Victorian icon Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCharming Orient Shining England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurks, Moors, and Englishmen in the Age of Discovery Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsFifteenth-Century Lives: Writing Sainthood in England Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAugustus Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlexander the Great: From His Death to the Present Day Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Grand Turk: Sultan Mehmet II-Conqueror of Constantinople and Master of an Empire Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Royal tourists, colonial subjects and the making of a British world, 1860–1911 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPulp fictions of medieval England: Essays in popular romance Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJohn Lothrop Motley, A Memoir — Complete Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsModernism and the Women’s Popular Romance in Britain, 1885–1925 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings
History For You
Prisoners of Geography: Ten Maps That Explain Everything About the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Indifferent Stars Above: The Harrowing Saga of the Donner Party Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Things You're Not Supposed to Know: Secrets, Conspiracies, Cover Ups, and Absurdities Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Devil's Chessboard: Allen Dulles, the CIA, and the Rise of America's Secret Government Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Grief Observed Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Secret History of the World Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Longitude: The True Story of a Lone Genius Who Solved the Greatest Scientific Problem of His Time Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Library Book Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Gulag Archipelago [Volume 1]: An Experiment in Literary Investigation Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Richest Man in Babylon: The most inspiring book on wealth ever written Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Vanderbilt: The Rise and Fall of an American Dynasty Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5She Came to Slay: The Life and Times of Harriet Tubman Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Ultralearning: Master Hard Skills, Outsmart the Competition, and Accelerate Your Career Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The End of the Myth: From the Frontier to the Border Wall in the Mind of America Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England: A Handbook for Visitors to the Fourteenth Century Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Great Reset: And the War for the World Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Whore Stories: A Revealing History of the World's Oldest Profession Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5The Lessons of History Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Unveiled: How the West Empowers Radical Muslims Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5100 Amazing Facts About the Negro with Complete Proof Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Anglo-Saxons: A History of the Beginnings of England: 400 – 1066 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The ZERO Percent: Secrets of the United States, the Power of Trust, Nationality, Banking and ZERO TAXES! Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5
Reviews for The Love of Strangers
2 ratings0 reviews