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... that crucial moment in modern thought when, thanks to the great voyages of discovery, a human community which had believed itself to be complete and in its final form suddenly learned ... that it was not alone, that it was part of a greater whole, and that, in order to achieve self-knowledge, it must first of all contemplate its recognisable image in this mirror.
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Richard Francis Burton, Person al Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al Madimah and Meccah, 2 vols (1856, Memorial Edition London, 1893), vol. II p. 85.
Stanley Lane Poole, ‘Preface’, Edward W. Lane The Arabian Nights Entertainment (London, 1838), vol. I, pp. xviii–xix.
Richard Francis Burton, The Book of Thousand and One Nights (London, 1885–8), 17 vols, vol. I, pp. 71–2.
For the problematics of the evidence on the Imperial Harem see N. M. Penzer, and A. M. Moulin and P. Chuvin, ‘Des Occidentaux a la cour du Sultan’, L’Histoire 45 (1982) pp. 62–71.
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Melman, B. (1992). Harem Literature, 1763–1914: Tradition and Innovation. In: Women’s Orients: English Women and the Middle East, 1718–1918. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-10157-3_3
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