Shii News – Kaempfer: ‘Exotic Attractions’
Posted in: Field-specific (academic)Engelbert Kaempfer: Exotic Attractions in Persia, 1684-1688: Travels & Observations – Mage Publishers
One of the most important sources on the history and culture of seventeenth-century Iran, Engelbert Kaempfer’s Amoenitatum Exoticarum was first published in Latin in 1712 but would not be translated for another two centuries, and then only partially, in German, in 1940.
- April 18, 2018
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