
ISBN Turkish Embassy Letters
ISBN Turkish Embassy Letters, English, Paperback, 190 pages
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Lady Montagu, 1716 yılında İstanbul'a, büyükelçi olarak atanan eşiyle birlikte gelir ve arkadaşlarına buradan mektuplar yazar. Türk kadınları ile ahbaplık eder ve başı örtülü bu kadınların, yeryüzünün en özgür yaşayan insanlarından olduklarını şaşkınlıkla gözler. Tarih kitabı olarak da okunabileceği gibi gezi kitabı olarak da ilklerden.
The newly edited letters of Lady Montagu tell of her travels through Europe to Turkey in 1716, where her husband had been appointed Ambassador. She had befriended to Turkish women and witnessed the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil.
Her letters offer insights into the paradoxical freedoms conferred on Muslim women by the veil, the value of experimental work by Turkish doctors on inoculation, and the beauty of Arab poetry and culture.
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