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title	Kaçar İdaresİ Dönemİnde İran’da Gİzemlİ Bİr Seyyah : Edward Granvİlle Browne
author	Karadenİz, Yılmaz
item type	Journal article
publication year	2023
date	2023
publication title	Tarih Okulu Dergisi = Journal of History School
abstract note	Edward Granville Browne, who started his school life at Eton College as a child of a wealthy family in England, continued his education in Cambridge by studying medicine, and was sent to Istanbul by his father in return for studying medicine. When he was fifteen years old, he was interested in the news of the war that started between the Ottoman Empire and Russia and went down in history as the Ninety-Three War. After that, he started to learn Persian, Turkish and Arabic while reading books on the Middle East and the Ottoman Empire. He met Hacı Pirzadeh Naini, one of the intellectuals of the Qajar period in England, and after this meeting he used the title Mazhar Ali. This closeness with Pirzade Naini not only allowed Browne to get to know Iran better, but also asked the British Foreign Office to send him to Tehran for a year. After Browne came to Iran, he contacted the Babis (Bahá'ís) and lived among them for a year. While trying to gather information in his interviews with them, he openly stated that he supported them. On his return to England, he wrote a travelogue describing a year he spent in Iran. Later, he published the History of Persian Literature. In our study, we tried to reveal why Browne concealed his identity in Iran despite being a medical scientist, why he was sent at a time when this country was experiencing a constitutional process and was dragged into internal turmoil, based on the sources and especially the travel book he wrote. After he went to Iran, we tried to find answers to the questions about his immediate contact with the Babis (Bahá'ís), his involvement in the border issues on the Ottoman-Iranian border and the sectarian conflicts in Iran. Although he is not a linguist, we tried to find out the reason for his contact with Baha'is and Zoroastrians in Tehran, Kirman, Yazd, Zanjan and Isfahan rather than contacting people related to this field in Iran due to his interest in Persian.
pages	1835-1850
issue	65
volume	16
language	Turkish
manual tags	IRAN; TRAVELS & JOURNEYS; BROWNE, EDWARD GRANVILLE

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