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A YEAR
AMONGST THE PERSIANS

IMPRESSIONS
AS TO THE LIFE, CHARACTER, & THOUGHT
OF
THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA

Received during Twelve Months' Residence
in that Country in the Year
1887-1888

by

EDWARD GRANVILLE BROWNE

With
A Memoir
by
SIR E. DENISON ROSS

CAMBRIDGE
AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
MCMXXVII

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First published by Messrs
A & C Black Ltd 1893
New Edition published by the
Cambridge University Press 1926
Reprinted 1927

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CONTENTS

EDWARD G. BROWNE (in Persian dress)                              Frontispiece

A MEMOIR         by SIR E. DENISON ROSS                              page vii

Chapter    I          Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
          II          From England to the Persian Frontier . . . . . .  19
         III          From the Persian Frontier to Tabriz  . . . . . .  51
          IV          From Tabriz to Teheran . . . . . . . . . . . . .  71
           V          Teheran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
          VI          Mysticism, Metaphysic, and Magic . . . . . . . . 133
         VII          From Teheran to Isfahan . . . . . . . . . . . .  168
        VIII          Isfahan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  217
          IX          From Isfahan to Shiraz . . . . . . . . . . . . . 240
           X          Shiraz . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 287
          XI          Shiraz (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 326
         XII          From Shiraz to Yezd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .370
        XIII          Yezd . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 397
         XIV          Yezd (continued) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 431
          XV          From Yezd to Kirman  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 457
         XVI          Kirman Society . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 475
        XVII          Amongst the Kalandars . . . . . . . . . . . . .  531
       XVIII          From Kirman to England . . . . . . . . . . . . . 590

INDEX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  637
MAP of PERSIA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . at end