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Expeditions in Persia

Exploring Qajar Persia in two 19th-Century Diaries
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Iranian Studies Series, Volume 34
Publisher:
 2025


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

Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. A few notes No access
    3. Transliteration No access
      1. 1.1.1 Sketches of Persia and its author No access
      2. 1.1.2 The significance of the book No access
      1. 1.2.1 The scribe No access
      2. 1.2.2 The diary and its significance No access
    1. 1.3 Interwoven Histories: Exploring Complementary Societal and Cultural Narratives No access
    1. Introduction No access
    2. Chapter I: Voyage from Bombay to the Persian Gulf No access
    3. Chapter II: Muscat No access
    4. Chapter III: The Persian Gulf and Abusheher No access
    5. Chapter IV: Camp at Abusheher—Horses—Abdûlla Aga [ʿAbdollāh Āqā]—Anecdote of Arab No access
    6. Chapter V: Hunting and Hawking—Entertainment of the Shaikh—Tollemache—Mirage—Nadir Shâh [Nāder Shāh] and Turkish Ambassador No access
    7. Chapter VI: Elchee’s Lectures—Mehmandar [Mehmāndār]’s Journal—Arab Nurse—Blue-beard—Persian Ceremony—King’s Picture No access
    8. 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
    9. 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
    10. 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
    11. 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
    12. 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
    13. Chapter XII: Persian Servants—Departure from Shiraz—Persepolis—Tale of the Labours of Roostem—Anecdote of a Sportsman No access
    14. 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
  1. 3 Mirzā Ṣāleḥ’s Diary of Persia and its translation No access Pages 264 - 312
  2. Bibliography No access Pages 313 - 314
    1. Individuals No access
    2. Cities No access

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