Life in the Moslem East / / 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.
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2003] ©2003 |
| Year of Publication: | 2003 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (536 p.) :; 40 |
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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