Don Juan of Persia

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Persian-Spanish convert from Islam

Spain WritersLived 1560 to 1620 · aged 60

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Oruj beg Bayat, later known by his baptized name of Don Juan de Persia or simply Don Juan was a late 16th and early 17th century Iranian figure in Iran and Spain. He is also known as Faisal Nazary.

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First edition of a diary written by Don Juan of Persia, the secretary in the company of Sir Anthony Sherley, from their 1599-1602 Persian embassy to Europe. With the substantial help of his mentor, Alonso Remón, he translated the text into Castilian, amplified its contents with references to scholarly sources, and published the work in 1604 as the Relaciones de Don Juan de Persia. All traces of the Persian "original" have been lost.

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