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Titre
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En
A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, and Thought of the People of Persia, Received during Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887–8
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Fr
Une annee parmi les Persans : impressions sur la vie, le caractere et la pensee du peuple de Perse, recueillies durant douze mois de residence dans ce pays en 1887-1888
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Type
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Travelogue
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Auteur.e.s
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Browne, Edward Granville (1862–1926)
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Contributions
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Ross, Sir E. Denison (memoir, 1926 edition)
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Résumé
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En
Classic account by the English orientalist Edward Granville Browne of his year of residence in Persia (September 1887 to 1888), undertaken during a Pembroke College, Cambridge fellowship secured immediately after completing his medical qualifications. Travelling from the Persian frontier through Tabriz, Tehran, Isfahan, Shiraz, Yazd, and Kerman before returning to England, Browne produced a work remarkable for its sympathetic, non-condescending portrayal of Persian society, including a frank account of opium use and extended reflections on mysticism, metaphysics, and popular religion. Having encountered the Comte de Gobineau's Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale at Cambridge in 1886, Browne arrived in Persia already fascinated by the Babi religion and devoted much of his year seeking out and conversing with Babis and early Baha'is, later writing that the memory of those gatherings and voices could never fade from his mind. Though initially rejected by several publishers and not widely noticed on its 1893 publication, the book was reprinted after Browne's death in 1926 and has since become a classic of English travel literature and Persian studies. Of central importance for the study of Shi'i and post-Shi'i religious life, Browne's chapters on Isfahan and Shiraz, and his sustained engagement with Babi-Baha'i communities alongside orthodox Shi'i mysticism, offer an unparalleled scholarly window onto Naseri-period religious diversity, including the ritual and devotional culture — Muharram observance and ta'zieh among it — from which these dissenting movements emerged and against which they defined themselves.
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Fr
Recit classique de l'orientaliste anglais Edward Granville Browne relatant son annee de residence en Perse (septembre 1887 a 1888), entreprise durant une bourse de recherche a Pembroke College, Cambridge, obtenue aussitot apres l'achevement de ses qualifications medicales. Voyageant depuis la frontiere persane par Tabriz, Teheran, Ispahan, Chiraz, Yazd et Kerman avant de rentrer en Angleterre, Browne produisit un ouvrage remarquable par son portrait empathique et depourvu de condescendance de la societe persane, incluant un recit franc de la consommation d'opium et de longues reflexions sur le mysticisme, la metaphysique et la religion populaire. Ayant decouvert a Cambridge en 1886 l'ouvrage du comte de Gobineau Les religions et les philosophies dans l'Asie centrale, Browne arriva en Perse deja fascine par la religion babie et consacra une grande partie de son annee a rechercher et converser avec des babis et de premiers baha'is, ecrivant plus tard que le souvenir de ces assemblees et de ces voix ne pourrait jamais s'effacer de son esprit. Bien que d'abord refuse par plusieurs editeurs et peu remarque lors de sa publication en 1893, l'ouvrage fut reedite apres la mort de Browne en 1926 et est depuis devenu un classique de la litterature de voyage anglaise et des etudes persanes. D'une importance capitale pour l'etude de la vie religieuse chiite et post-chiite, les chapitres de Browne sur Ispahan et Chiraz, ainsi que son engagement soutenu avec les communautes babies-baha'ies aux cotes du mysticisme chiite orthodoxe, offrent une fenetre savante inegalee sur la diversite religieuse de la periode nasserienne, incluant la culture rituelle et devotionnelle — les commemorations de Muharram et la ta'zieh parmi elles — dont ces mouvements dissidents emergerent et contre laquelle ils se definirent.
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Edition
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A. and C. Black, London
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Date
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1893 (journey 1887–1888)
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Langue
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En
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Citation bibliographique
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Browne, Edward Granville. 1893. A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions as to the Life, Character, and Thought of the People of Persia, Received during Twelve Months' Residence in That Country in the Years 1887–8. London: A. and C. Black.
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Droits
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Public Domain