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The Danish Orientalist Arthur Christensen's Visit to Iran in 1929 and His Meeting with the Iranian Intelligentsia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 March 2022

Mette Hedemand Søltoft
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Abstract

This article focuses on Arthur Christensen's meeting with the Iranian intelligentsia in 1929. Arthur Christensen's L'Iran sous les Sassanides had a tremendous influence on the Iranian nationalism at the beginning of the twentieth century. However, Christensen's encounter with Iranian intellectuals in 1929 shows that from the very beginning they had much in common, and furthermore that Christensen was influenced by Iranian nationalism.

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OrientalismNationalismIranian intelligentsiaReza ShahSasanian Empire
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Iranian Studies , Volume 55 , Issue 1 , January 2022 , pp. 3 - 36
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Copyright © The Author(s), 2021. Published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Association for Iranian Studies. Originally published by Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group.

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Footnotes

Thanks to Michael Harbsmeier and Afshin Matin-Asgari for commentaries and suggestions on previous versions of this paper. I am also very thankful to Claus Valling Pedersen for transliterations of Iranian names and Persian text and likewise for commentaries and suggestions on previous versions of this paper. I would also like to thank Feridun Vahman, who has helped me translate some of the Persian texts into English. Finally, I am very grateful to the anonymous reviewers and the editors of Iranian Studies, who provided me with careful and very useful comments at different stages of the review process. Needless to say, I alone am responsible for errors in this article.