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Expeditions in Persia
Exploring Qajar Persia in two 19th-Century Diaries- Authors:
- Series:
- Iranian Studies Series, Volume 34
- Publisher:
- 2025
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Bibliographic data
- Edition
- 1/2025
- Copyright Year
- 2025
- ISBN-Print
- 978-90-8728-468-8
- ISBN-Online
- 978-94-006-0505-3
- Publisher
- Leiden University Press, Leiden
- Series
- Iranian Studies Series
- Volume
- 34
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 326
- Product Type
- Monograph
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- Contents No access
- A few notes No access
- Transliteration No access
- 1.1.1 Sketches of Persia and its author No access
- 1.1.2 The significance of the book No access
- 1.2.1 The scribe No access
- 1.2.2 The diary and its significance No access
- 1.3 Interwoven Histories: Exploring Complementary Societal and Cultural Narratives No access
- Introduction No access
- Chapter I: Voyage from Bombay to the Persian Gulf No access
- Chapter II: Muscat No access
- Chapter III: The Persian Gulf and Abusheher No access
- Chapter IV: Camp at Abusheher—Horses—Abdûlla Aga [ʿAbdollāh Āqā]—Anecdote of Arab No access
- Chapter V: Hunting and Hawking—Entertainment of the Shaikh—Tollemache—Mirage—Nadir Shâh [Nāder Shāh] and Turkish Ambassador No access
- Chapter VI: Elchee’s Lectures—Mehmandar [Mehmāndār]’s Journal—Arab Nurse—Blue-beard—Persian Ceremony—King’s Picture No access
- Chapter VII: Mountaineers—Valley of Kazeroon—Virtue of Nitric Acid—Rizâ Kooli Khan [Rezā Qoli Khān]’s loss of Eyes—Extraordinary Birds—Beautiful Valley of Dusht-e-Arjun [Dasht-e Arzhan]—Mahomed Rizâ Khan Byat [Moḥammad Rezā Khān Bayāt]—Irish Patriotism—Pe No access
- Chapter VIII: Principal Characters of the Mission—Mahomed Hoosein Khan [Moḥammad Ḥosein Khān]—Jaffier Ali Khan [Jaʿfar ʿAli Khān]—Meerzâ Aga Meer [Mirzā Āqā Mir]—Mahomed Hoosein [Moḥammad Ḥosein Khān]—Hajee Hoosein [Ḥāji Ḥosein]—Candidates for the Elchee’ No access
- Chapter IX: Importance of Forms—Description of Those Used at Visits in Persia—Difficulties on This Subject—Happy Termination of a Battle of Ceremonies between the First Mission and the Petty Court of Shiraz—Persian Society—Fables and Apologues No access
- Chapter X: Fable of the Two Cats—Preamble to Persian Treaty—Apologues from Sâdee—Letter from Nizâm-ool-Moolk [Neẓām-ol-Molk] to Mahomed Shâh [Moḥammad Shāh]—Death of Yezdijird [Yazdgerd] No access
- Chapter XI. Shiraz—Shaikh-ool-Islâm, or Chief Judge—Story of Abd-ool-Kâdir [ʿAbdol Qāder]—Entertainments—Derveesh Seffer [Darvish Ṣafar]—Story of Abdûlla of Khorassan [ʿAbdollāh of Khorāsān]—Persian Poet No access
- Chapter XII: Persian Servants—Departure from Shiraz—Persepolis—Tale of the Labours of Roostem—Anecdote of a Sportsman No access
- Chapter XIII: Travellers and Antiquaries—Wild Ass—Hawking—Mâder-e-Sûlimân[Mādar-e Soleymān], —Akleed—Mirrors—Mehdee Khan [Mirzā Mahdi Khān]—Isfahan—Persian Citizens and Peasantry—Shâh Abbas the Great—Hâroon-oor-Rasheed [Hārun al-Rashid] —Nethenz [Naṭanz] No access
- 3 Mirzā Ṣāleḥ’s Diary of Persia and its translation No access Pages 264 - 312
- Bibliography No access Pages 313 - 314
- Individuals No access
- Cities No access





