A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.

A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.

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A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.
  • A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.
  • A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.
A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.

A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca 1885-1886. The Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Hosayn Farahani.

£15

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Farahani, Mirza Mohammad Hosayn

8vo. xxxii, 380 pp., b/w photographs & illustrations, 8 maps, table, 2 plans, edited, translated and annotated by Hafez Farmayan and Elton L. Daniel, glossary, biblio, index, faded publisher’s original wrappers, otherwise copy clean inside and in very good condition, University of Texas Press, Austin, first edition, 1990.

This book is from the original nineteenth-century Persian manuscript of the Safarnameh of Mirza Mohammad Farahani, a well-educated, keenly observant, Iranian Shi'ite gentleman. This memoir holds a wealth of social and economic information about Czarist Russia, the Ottoman empire, Egypt, Northern Iran, and Arabia.

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