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Jan 15, 2016 · A subheading on Jan. 17 with a review of “The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London,” by Nile Green, misstated the century in which the students whose ...
Nov 24, 2015 · The Love of Strangers chronicles the frustration and fellowship of six young men abroad to open a unique window onto the transformative encounter between an Evangelical England and an Islamic Iran at the dawn of the modern age. This is that rarest of books about the Middle East and the West: a story of friendships. is professor of history at UCLA.
Nov 24, 2015 · The Love of Strangers is a non-fiction book about students from Iran who spent almost three years in England beginning in 1815. It should be fascinating, but because of the author’s tendency to get bogged down in minor details and the lack of insight into anyone’s personality, it’s weirdly boring.
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The Love of Strangers tells the story of their search for love and learning in Jane Austen’s England. Drawing on the Persian diary of the student Mirza Salih and the letters of his companions, Nile Green vividly describes how these adaptable Muslim migrants learned to enjoy the opera and take the waters at Bath.
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Jan 21, 2016 · The students variously relish in scallops, join the Freemasons and fall in love. The blacksmith, Muhammad Ali, seems to have converted to the Unitarian church and married a market girl, Mary Dudley, who somehow secured passage home with him, where she resolutely insisted “on the use of knives and forks”.
Apr 11, 2017 · The Love of Strangers: What Six Muslim Students Learned in Jane Austen’s London James Hodkinson School of Modern Languages and Cultures, Warwick University, Coventry, UK Correspondence J.R.Hodkinson@warwick.ac.uk
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Aug 23, 2017 · If differences in diction and accent, combined with professional (and maybe even national) jealousy was really such a strong divider, I think there was an opportunity here to reflect on how diasporas relate to host populations, and to each other. The love of strangers, in other words, may not be separable from less benevolent emotions.
