Table des matières
Hélène Ibata, Caroline Lehni, Fanny Moghaddassi et al.
ForewordCaroline Lehni
Introduction. East and West Standing Face to Face: For a Material History of Cultural ContactsI. Scripting the Orient
Fanny Moghaddassi
Staging English Contacts with the Middle East in Mandeville’s TravelsJacqueline Jondot
Gregory Wortabet “of Bayroot, Syria”: A Failed Encounter?Yann Richard
Stéphane Normand (trad.)
The British in Persia in the late Qajar Era: New Historical EvidenceII. Mapping the Orient
Damien Coulon
Stéphane Normand (trad.)
The English in the Levant in the 12th and 13th Centuries : New Geographical and Cartographic Approaches in the Wake of the CrusadesDaniel Foliard
Conflicted Cartographies of a Peninsula: Deconstructing Fraser Hunter’s 1908 Map of ArabiaIII. Objects Transferred
Christoph Heyl
Oriental Objects in 17th Century English Cabinets of Curiosities: The Tradescant CollectionIV. Sites Turned into Sights
Hélène Braeuner
Jean-Yves Bart (trad.)
British Travellers in the Isthmus of Suez, from Napoleon’s Campaign (1798) to the Construction of the Canal (1859)Wendy Shaw
Framing Istanbul: Resonances of the Photography of James Robertson in Envisioning the CityV. Orientalist Contact Zones
Isabelle Gadoin
Jules Mohl: A Missing Link in the Complex Network of Nineteenth-Century Orientalism ?Nader Nasiri-Moghaddam
The First British and French Archaeological Investigations in Susa during the 19th CenturyStéphanie Prévost
Dialogues with the Dead, and with the Living too ! British Egyptology Societies and the Politics of Preservation (1882-1898)IV. Transposing Legal and Political Principles
Pauline Collombier-Lakeman
Irish Nationalist MPs and the Egyptian Revolt of 1881-1882: An Example of Cross-Imperial Solidarity?Willem Floor
The Murder of Bibi Asilah: A failed early mixed-court case in Qajar Iran- Introduction
- What happened?
- What was the motive for the murder?
- The British Resident asks the qâzi to judge the crime
- The qâzi states there is no case
- The qâzi clarifies his position
- The British Resident investigates the crime, after the governor declines to do so
- The British Resident asks the Tehran government to intervene
- Tehran summons the perpetrators, but the governor delays implementation
- One alleged perpetrator too ill to be moved
- The victim’s brother is offered immunity in exchange for his testimony
- Two alleged perpetrators leave for Tehran
- Discussion