Going Places With Nāser-e kHosrow and His Translator1

GOING PLACES WITH N SER-E KHOSROW AND HIS TRANSLATOR1 BY LUTZ RICHTER-BERNBURG Bonn/Berlin The editor's choice of N-aser-e Khosrow's (henceforth: NKh) Safarnama (henceforth: SN) for publication in the Persian Heritage Series of major texts from that legacy in contemporary English versions deserves unhesitating applause. One may be hard put to decide whether it is because of intrinsic merit or the paucity of medieval Islamic travelogues that the SN qualifies as a major text, and it surely cannot by any means be termed "spontane- ous". Yet there is no denying the instruction and pleasure to be derived from accompanying NKh

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