The first world orders were not European. They came from Asia | Aeon Essays

The Iranian king Bahram Gur fights the horned wolf; illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama (Book of Kings), unidentified artist, c1330-40, Tabriz. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums by Ayşe Zarakol + BIO The Iranian king Bahram Gur fights the horned wolf; illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama (Book of Kings), unidentified artist, c1330-40, Tabriz. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums is professor of international relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a politics fellow at Emmanuel College. Her books include After Defeat: How the East Learned to Live with the West (2011) and Before the West: the Rise and Fall of Eastern World Orders (2022). Edited bySam Haselby The process that gave rise to Eurocentrism in social sciences and history is somewhat comparable to the follies of youth. Little children have difficulty believing that their parents existed before their birth. Teenagers often think that they are

The Iranian king Bahram Gur fights the horned wolf; illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama (Book of Kings), unidentified artist, c1330-40, Tabriz. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums by Ayşe Zarakol + BIO The Iranian king Bahram Gur fights the horned wolf; illustrated folio from a manuscript of the Great Il-Khanid Shahnama (Book of Kings), unidentified artist, c1330-40, Tabriz. Courtesy Harvard Art Museums is professor of international relations at the University of Cambridge, where she also has an appointment as a politics fellow at Emmanuel College. Her books include Af