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Ponafidine, Pierre. Life in the Moslem East
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| Title: | Life in the Moslem East | | Availability: | In Print | | Publisher: | Gorgias Press |
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, people for whom he learned to have a deep sympathy, and often affection. (With over 40 illustrations.) Table of Contents
- Translator's Preface
- Preface
- In Bagdad
- Mesopotamia, The Portals of the Desert
- The Ruins of Babylon and Among The Kurds and Yezidis
- Epidemics in Bagdad
- Sunnites and Shiites, and the Relics of the Prophet
- Pilgrimages and Carrying of Bodies To the Holy Places of the Shiites in Turkey
- Arabia, Nejd and the Wahabees
- Bedouins
- The Arab Horse in its Native Land
- From Bagdad to Bassorah
- From Bassorah to Muscat
- Bombay, Castes, and the Towers of Silence
- Thugs in India
- Mecca, THe Muslim's Palestine
- Pilgrimages to Medina
- In the Land of the "Lion and the Sun"
- The Position of Women in the Moslem World, According to the Teaching of the Koran
- The Position of Women in Persia
- Persian Days of Mourning, Fasts and Feasts
- Shiite Pilgrimages to Their Sacred Places in Persia
- Law Proceedings in Persia, Retaliation, and Teachings Concerning the "Price of Blood" and Punishments
- The Persian at Home
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| | Ponafidine, Pierre. Life in the Moslem East | | ISBN: | 1-931956-87-1 | | Weight: | 1 LBS. | | Price: | $63.75 | |
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