Download or read book The Wild Rue written by Bess Allen Donaldson and published by Ayer Company Pub. This book was released on 1938 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Wild Rue of Persia written by Bess Donaldson and published by I.B. Tauris. This book was released on 2015-07-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'When an afflicted person is believed to be a victim of nazar, or the glance of the evil eye, a particular kind of incense, which is made of seeds of the wild rue, mixed with myrtle and frankincense, is burned at sunset; and while the smoke is curling about the head of the victim the following incantation is repeated...' The Wild Rue is a unique study of magic, myth and folklore in Iran. In this classic work, Bess Donaldson records the beliefs and superstitions of the country at a time when they were increasingly threatened by the Shah's programme of modernisation. This earlier way of life, with its belief in angels and the evil eye, and with its age-old rituals surrounding childbirth and burial, is recounted in a highly readable text. Among the wide variety of topics covered are cosmology, dreams, names and numbers, talismans and signs, oaths and curses, childbirth, angels, trees and plants, the evil eye, and the calendar. Long unavailable, The Wild Rue is indispensable to any serious student of Iran and will be welcomed by all with an interest in the country's culture and history.
Download or read book The Wild Rue A Study of Muhammadan Magic and Folklore in Iran With Plates written by Bess Allen Donaldson and published by . This book was released on 1938 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsi written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 576 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Literary History of Persia written by Edward Granville Browne and published by Dalcassian Publishing Company. This book was released on 1902-01-01 with total page 531 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [v. 1] From the earliest times until Firdawsí, 1902.--[v. 2] From Firdawsí to Saʻdí
Download or read book A Literary History of Persia written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Cruel Way written by Ella K. Maillart and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2013-06-10 with total page 239 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1939 Swiss travel writer and journalist Ella K. Maillart set off on an epic journey from Geneva to Kabul with fellow writer Annemarie Schwarzenbach in a brand new Ford. As the first European women to travel alone on Afghanistan’s Northern Road, Maillart and Schwarzenbach had a rare glimpse of life in Iran and Afghanistan at a time when their borders were rarely crossed by Westerners. As the two flash across Europe and the Near East in a streak of élan and daring, Maillart writes of comical mishaps, breathtaking landscapes, vitriolic religious clashes, and the ingenuity with which the women navigated what was often a dangerous journey. In beautiful, clear-eyed prose, The Cruel Way shows Maillart’s great ability to explore and experience other cultures in writing both lyrical and deeply empathetic. While the core of the book is the journey itself and their interactions with people oppressed by political conflict and poverty, towards the end of the trip the women’s increasingly troubled relationship takes center stage. By then the glamorous, androgynous Schwarzenbach, whose own account of the trip can be found in All the Roads Are Open, is fighting a losing battle with her own drug addiction, and Maillart’s frustrated attempts to cure her show the profound depth of their relationship. Complete with thirteen of Maillart’s own photographs from the journey, The Cruel Way is a classic of travel writing, and its protagonists are as gripping and fearless as any in literature.
Download or read book Botanical Progress Horticultural Innovation and Cultural Changes written by Michel Conan and published by Dumbarton Oaks. This book was released on 2007 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights religious, artistic, political, and economic consequences of horticultural pursuits, exploring the roles of peasants, botanists, horticulturists, nurserymen, and gentlemen collectors in these developments, and offering a reflection on horticulture's future in the context of environmental devastation and ecological uncertainty.
Download or read book A Literary History of Persia From the earliest times until Firdaws written by Edward Granville Browne and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Comprehensive Persian English Dictionary written by Francis Steingass and published by Asian Educational Services. This book was released on 1992 with total page 1568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The World`S Most Detailedand Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary.
Download or read book A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night written by Farshid Kazemi and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2022-03-15 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is something weird and eerie going on in the oneiric Iranian ghost-town Bad City. A mysterious female vampire, clad in a long-black veil, imbued with occult and erotic power, has newly arrived in town and is summarily dispensing with its unsavory characters. Through a chance encounter in a night of luminal darkness, an eternally dark romance begins – baptized in love’s blood. Shot in dazzling anamorphic black and white cinematography and accompanied with an intoxicating and mesmeric soundtrack, Ana Lily Amirpour’s debut feature film A Girl Walks Home Alone At Night (2014), was an instant popular and critical success. Dubbed ‘the first Iranian vampire western’ the genre-bending film is a pastiche of genres such as vampire cinema, gothic and horror films, spaghetti westerns, graphic novels, and Iranian cinema; yet the film stands as a new vampire fairy-tale with a unique style all its own. The first full-length study dedicated to the film since its release, this book in the Devil’s Advocate series provides a unique approach to the film situated within three theoretical coordinates: the vampire genre, psychoanalytic (film) theory and German Idealism.
Download or read book Iran written by Richard N Frye and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-13 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard N. Frye, who worked for many years in Iran, Afghanistan, Turkey and Egypt, brings to this 1960 book an historian’s accuracy, a writer’s talent, and an eye for colour. The result is a fascinating, accurate portrait of a vital area in the cold war, an area composed of many peoples of ancient religions and customs and characterised by a vig
Download or read book Fifty Years in the East written by Farhad Daftary and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-12-02 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I.B.Tauris in association with the Institute of Ismaili Studies Few fields of Islamic studies have witnessed as much progress in modern times as Ismaili studies, and in even fewer instances has the role of a single individual been as pivotal in initiating progress as that of Wladimir Ivanow (1886-1970), whose memoirs are now published here for the first time. The breakthrough in modern Ismaili studies occurred mainly as a result of the recovery and study of a large number of texts relating to the field, which had not been available to the earlier generations of orientalists. The Persian and Arabic Ismaili manuscripts, many edited and published by Ivanow, reflect a rich diversity of intellectual and literary traditions. Ivanow left his native Russia soon after the October Revolution of 1917 and settled in India where he was formally commissioned in 1931 by Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan III, the 48th Imam of the Nizari Ismailis, to investigate the history and teachings of the Ismailis. Henceforth, Ivanow began the systematic recovery and study of texts from this tradition of Shi'i Islam, discovered in India, the Middle East and Central Asia, amongst other regions. He also played a key role in the establishment of the Ismaili Society - the first research institution of its kind with a major collection of Ismaili manuscripts. Ivanow made these manuscripts available to other scholars, thereby contributing to further progress in the field. Ivanow completed his memoirs, entitled Fifty Years in the East, in 1968, shortly before his death. This work, originally written in Russian, is comprised of an autobiography and vivid accounts from his travels. These convey his ethnologist's interest in 'the archaeology of the way of life' and profound curiosity for regional customs and languages. The memoirs, written in Tehran during Ivanow's final years, have now been edited with substantial annotations by Farhad Daftary. They reveal for the first time the circumstances under which modern Ismaili studies were initiated and an eyewitness account of several regions during the early decades of the twentieth century before the rapid onset of modernisation.
Download or read book Travels in Persia written by Thomas Herbert and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: He traversed a great part of Persia. He had a good eye for detail and a great appetite for information His was one of the best seventeenth century travel narratives, and became immediately popular on publication.' The Times When first published in 1928, Herbert's work enjoyed immediate success. Considerable interest was being taken in Persia at the time and a full account of the country was welcomed. The narrative is of considerable importance from an historical point of view, as it gives the only detailed account of the first English embassy to Persia. It also paints a graphic picture of the Perisa and the Persians in the early part of the seventeenth century. Having spent over a year in the country, travelling from south to north and back again, there are vivid and extensive descriptions of the towns of Abbas, Lar, Shiraz, Persepolis, Isfahan, Ashraf, Tehran, Qazvin, Qum and Kashan. This edition is based on the revised edition of 1677, but has in turn been edited so that the version reprinted here includes only what the author actually saw or gleaned first hand. The notes include identification of places and a glossary of the strange or obsolete terms.
Download or read book School Life written by and published by . This book was released on 1945 with total page 678 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Dynasty of the Kajars Translated from the Original Persian Manuscript of Abd Al Razzak Ibn Najaf Kul by Sir H J Brydges assisted by D Shea To which is Prefixed a Succinct Account of the History of Persia Previous to that Period Illustrated with Plates and a Map of Western Persia by Colonel J Sutherland written by and published by . This book was released on 1833 with total page 682 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Dictionary Persian Arabic And English written by John Richardson and published by . This book was released on 1829 with total page 1824 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
