Abstract

GASQUET, Axel. History, legends and clichés of the East in the work of Emir Emin Arslan. Cuad. CILHA [online]. 2012, vol.13, n.1, pp.105-131. ISSN 1852-9615.

This paper intends to explore the orientalist work developed in Argentina by the Turkish diplomatic and immigrant Emir Emin Arslan. Druze-Lebanese origin, this cosmopolitan aristocrat came to have a remarkable gravitation in the cultural Argentina between 1910 and 1940. His voluminous work, dispersed in numerous articles for newspapers and weeklies, in addition to his books, is a hitherto unexplored corpus of vernacular Orientalism. Arslan was in charge of an important cultural weekly, La Nota, between 1915 and 1920, and was also a founder of a bilingual newspaper in arabic and spanish in 1925, Al-Istiklal-La Independencia. This research is a continuation of my work, previously developed in the Oriente al Sur (2007).

Keywords : Emir Emin Arslán; Muslim & Arabic East; Ottoman Empire; Islam; Legends.

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