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

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.

Table of Contents

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