Alam, Muzaffar

Indo-Persian travels in the age of discoveries 1400 – 1800 - New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2007. - 399p.

1. Introduction: the travel account from Beijing to the Bosphorus; 2. From Timur to the Bahmanis: fifteenth-century views; 3. Courtly encounters; 4. An ocean of wonders; 5. When hell is other people; 6. An eastern mirror; 7. The long road to rum; 8. On early-modern travel.

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Travelers' writings, Persian -- History and criticism.
Iran -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.

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