Was Sir Richard Francis Burton a pseud?
Also post recs for interesting biographies
Was Sir Richard Francis Burton a pseud? Also post recs for interesting biographies
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Daily reminder he wrote something antisemitic based on his experiences as a consul in the Levant so British israelites literally bought it and sealed it away so nobody could ever read it and are still holding it to this day
Imagine being payed by the international israelite for your slandering of him.
Someone who translated the Arabian Nights unabridged in 10 volumes is not a pseud
It’s never enough for LULZfags.
I don't know man, his legacy as the oriental smut pusher and "that victorian polyglot guy" ain't doing him any favors
For you.
Name one book he himself wrote that's actually worth reading then or fuck off
What an arbitrary request. His Arabian Nights is a masterpiece. There isn’t a need for le own work. His main literary work was translation.
To be fair, you're probably right. I'm actually just salty for his wife for sabotaging his legacy
The manuscript on Bacha Bazis that his wife destroyed was probably quite interesting.
The Kasidah
Cunt.
He first started learning Indian languages by finger-banging gypsy girls in the woods behind his school. He was as far from a pseud as you can be.
Probably was a glowie though
>Probably was a glowie though
I mean, he was a spy and employed by the British government, so by that virtue he literally was a glowie.. But he also was a double-agent and fought in numerous battles on various sides just because he liked the adventure, so that makes him kind of based.
No. People have been travelling the world for sensual pleasure since the Greeks.
>Probably was a glowie though
Also a freemason.
All the most luminescent glowies are. But I heard he made a somewhat sincere conversion to Islam in his later life, and became one of Europe's many based secret Muslims (Goethe, T. E. Lawrence, Hitler, etc.)
>www.greek-love.com
Lmao I'm not touching that link
>Goethe, T. E. Lawrence, Hitler, etc.
is there any evidence for any of this? I'm willing to entertain the idea. Most curious about Goethe though.
Goethe is the only one there is any evidence for actually. He writes in his journals about meeting some wandering Persian sufis whom he prayed and (presumably) too shahada with. He owned a well studied copy of the Quran, and also wrote in his journals that Islam, with it's principles of submission and universal oneness, was essentially what he believed in.
Actually there's a lot of weird parallels between German culture and Islamic culture. The Amish and Mennonites for example both describe the core principle of their doctrine with the High Germanic word for "Submission". Much of German idealism has parallels to the consequentialism of Al Ghazali. The admiration of people like Luther, Nietzsche, Bismark, Hitler, and so on for Islam is well documented. Whereas Spain can directly trace much of it's culture to Islamic culture, Germany seems to embody more broadly a proto-Islamic conception of Christianity and the West that has constantly flirted with Islam without ever fully embracing it
>Did you know Muhammed invented peanut butter?
cheap orientalism and writing Ali's name over and over again doesn't make you muslim
It basically does though, as demonstrated by the celebrated European-Muslim authors Lev Nassiabum and Esad Bey
>authors
>Lev Nassiabum
this looks like an interesting guy
His book Blood and Oil in the Orient I'd a masterpiece. There's also an interesting biography written about him recently, which does a good job of paraphrasing Blood and Oil but skips over what I can only assume were his deeply reactionary politics during the War
>writing Ali's name over and over again doesn't make you muslim
so that's enough for Persians but not a German huh
I don't have a great resource on it right now but he had a manuscript writing about his use of Bacha Bazi boys in Afghanistani brothels and his wife destroyed it before he could publish it because she was embarrassed.
Burton was one of my first heroes and one of my first LULZ posturing moments. I discovered him while going out of my way to make sure I only read the most patrician translation of the Arabian Nights. My plan was to read every volume, and after that I was going to read all the Chinese classics too. I read exactly one volume and no Chinese. But I still fondly remember Burton, and I still know that Anthony C. Yu is decent and the father/son team that translated the Water Margin was tentatively my pick.
No he was not a pseud.
was he the original sex tourist?
All the Brits in India had mistresses. The only difference is Burton could talk to them, because he made the effort to learn local languages.
Uh, his “mistresses” were boys in child brothels.
https://www.greek-love.com/general-non-fiction-pederasty/burton-sir-richard-pederasty
>https://www.greek-love.com/general-non-fiction-pederasty/burton-sir-richard-pederasty
Very interesting site. Thanks for posting it.
Probably not as the entire British Empire was a sex tourism operation (and before that the Nanban trade for geisha girls in Japan goes back to the 16th century), but he was one of its greats.
>Nickname: Ruffian Dick
You tell me.
Is Byron Farwell's bio of Burton good?
I found it thoroughly enjoyable
thank you very much anon, I shall listen to the audiobook of it that I pirated
What an interesting selection. I'll make sure to pick some of these up
He was a LARPer and sensationalist only interested in writing best-sellers. He also did everything in his power to blacklist Speke because the latter had found the source of the Nile, which Burton had failed to do (he had to be carried all the way and didn't make a single scientific observation)
>During a year’s leave from the 18th Regiment of Bombay Native Infantry, the 32-year-old [Burton] had completed the pilgrimage to Mecca disguised as a Muslim peddler of medicines and horoscopes. [...] Before setting out, he had not only chosen his identity as an Afghan Sufi, but to be safe had arranged to be circumcised. His voluntary subjection of himself to this painful procedure would not stop critics calling his pilgrimage a theatrical sham.
>In truth, the hajj had been successfully completed only forty years earlier by the Swiss explorer, Johann Ludwig Burckhardt, who had entered Mecca dressed as a Muslim merchant, and had published no fewer than four fat volumes about the experience. Over the centuries, numerous self professed converts to Islam had made the journey openly as Westerners, in perfect safety.
I don’t get it. Why didn’t they just convert? Were they religious Christians or something?
probably but it would also be beneath a gentleman to convert to the religion of barbarians or something along those lines