Revival: The Pageant of Persia (1937)
A Record of Travel by Motor in Persia with an Account of its Ancient and Modern Ways
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Revival: The Pageant of Persia (1937)
A Record of Travel by Motor in Persia with an Account of its Ancient and Modern Ways
About this book
It is the dawn of history and of the dispersion of the Indo-European peoples. They are breaking their tents in central Asia along the Hindu Kush and the Pamirs, primitive Aryans with their dogs and their herds of domesticated animals. In their trek they will proceed to the farthest confines of Europe. From them the peoples of England, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Scandinavia, Russia, Greece and other will take their origin. A part will penetrate into India and another portion into Persia. They will build empires and munitions factories, cathedrals and cabarets. Some less simple-minded, the Kurds, Lurs and Bakhtiaris will maintain in Persia their primitive character into the twentieth century.
With them in their dispersion, the Aryans carry the sacred fire which they have worshiped since they became acquainted with its use. It was man's first great step in the mastery of nature. The memory of its aid will be consecrated in one of the World's great religions; its flame will never be extinguised on the great Iranian plateau, the museums of religions.
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INDEX
- Abadan, 55, 57, 58, 61
- contrast with Mohammerah, 61
- Abadeh, 99, 119
- Abaga, 221, 223, 224
- Abambars, 130, 135
- Abbas Mirza, 226
- Abbas the Great, 40, 88, 89, 102, 104, 105, 109, 111, 112, 113, 114, 115, 116, 122, 125, 127, 128, 168, 175–176, 177, 180, 208, 216, 237, 241, 242, 245, 283, 286, 287, 288–289, 290, 291, 292, 297, 314, 317, 318, 363
- and Persian art, 103, 107
- and Uzbegs, 287
- attachment for Mazanderan, 314, 315
- caravanserai of, 127–128
- court of, 115–116, 287, 288, 297
- cruelty of, 89, 291–292, 315
- Abbas II, 34, 111, 167, 215, 284, 290
- Abbas, uncle of Mohammed, 187, 189, 190
- founder of Abbasids, 189
- Abbasids, 87, 164, 189–190, 192, 220, 259, 283, 284
- and House of Ali, 190
- decline, 190
- overthrow Omayyads, 190
- zenith under Haroun-al-Raschid, 190
- Abbassabad, 168
- hunting lodge at, 128
- Abdul Hamid, 276
- Abdul Mohammed, 111
- Abdullah, 169
- Abdullah ibn Sina, 281
- see also Avicenna
- Abhar, 211, 212
- Ab-i-Garm, 313, 315, 322
- meaning of name, 322
- Abraham, 143
- Abu Bekr, 186, 189
- Abu Sai...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Original Title Page
- Original Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- Illustrations
- The Prologue of the Pageant
- I From Teheran to Mohammerah Through Luristan and Elam
- II Persepolis, Cradle of the Persian Nation
- III Rose-Petaled Shiraz and Peerless Ispahan
- IV The Desert Cities of Kerman and Yezd
- V Mithraism, the Magi and Zoroastrianism
- VI The Shi’a Pilgrim Road through Khorasan to Meshed
- VII Religions in Persia After Zoroaster
- VIII Through Persian Azerbaijan and Kurdistan
- IX Baghdad to Teheran Through Kermanshah, Hamadan and Kazvin
- X Teheran and the Caspian Provinces
- XI Modern Persian History in the Light of Anglo-Russian Rivalry
- XII The March of Modernism in Persia
- Dynasties and Rulers of Persia
- Bibliography
- Index