Life in the Moslem East / / Pierre Ponafidine.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013
• VerfasserIn: Ponafidine, Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2003]; ©2003
• Year of Publication: 2003
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (536 p.) :; 40
• Other title: Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE --; CHAPTER I. IN BAGDAD --; CHAPTER II. IN MESOPOTAMIA, THE PORTALS OF THE DESERT --; CHAPTER III. THE RUINS OF BABYLON AND AMONG THE KURDS AND YEZIDIS --; CHAPTER IV. EPIDEMICS IN BAGDAD --; CHAPTER V. SUNNITES AND SHIITES, A N D THE RELICS OF THE PROPHET --; CHAPTER VI. PILGRIMAGES AND CARRYING OF BODIES T O THE HOLY PLACES OF T H E SHIITES IN TURKEY --; CHAPTER VII. ARABIA, NEJD AND T H E WAHABEES --; CHAPTER VIII. BEDOUINS --; CHAPTER IX. THE ARAB HORSE IN ITS NATIVE LAND --; CHAPTER X. FROM BAGDAD T O BASSORAH --; CHAPTER XI. FROM BASSORAH TO MUSCAT --; CHAPTER XII. BOMBAY, CASTES, AND THE TOWERS OF SILENCE --; CHAPTER XIII. THUGS IN INDIA --; CHAPTER XIV. MECCA, THE MOSLEM'S PALESTINE --; CHAPTER XV. PILGRIMAGES TO MEDINA --; CHAPTER XVI. IN THE LAND OF THE "LION AND THE SUN" --; CHAPTER XVII. THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN THE MOSLEM WORLD, ACCORDING TO THE TEACHINGS OF THE KORAN --; CHAPTER XVIII. THE POSITION OF WOMEN IN PERSIA --; CHAPTER XIX. PERSIAN DAYS OF MOURNING, FASTS AND FEASTS --; CHAPTER XX. SHIITE PILGRIMAGES TO THEIR SACRED PLACES IN PERSIA --; CHAPTER XXI. LAW PROCEEDINGS IN PERSIA, RETALIATION, AND TEACHINGS CONCERNING THE "PRICE OF BLOOD" AND PUNISHMENTS --; CHAPTER XXII. THE PERSIAN AT HOME
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781463209278; 9783111024141; 9783110663037
• DOI: 10.31826/9781463209278
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Pierre Ponafidine.

Pierre Ponafidine, an Imperial Russian diplomat who served in Ottoman Turkey and Persia, gives a series of studies of certain phases of the life, religion, and customs of people among whom he passed thirty-six years of service.