1910 TRAVEL to PERSIA ILLUSTRATED antique GLORY OF THE SHIA WORLD

THE GLORY OF THE SHIA WORLD
THE TALE OF A PILGRIMAGE
TRANSLATED & EDITED FROM A PERSIAN MANUSCRIPT
BY
MAJOR P. M. SYKES, C.M.G.

HIS BRITANNIC MAJESTY'S CONSUL-GENERAL
AND AGENT TO THE GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN KHORASAN
ROYAL GOLD MEDALLIST OF THE ROYAL GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY
AUTHOR OF 'TEN THOUSAND MILES IN PERSIA'

ASSISTED BY
KHAN BAHADUR AHMAD DIN KHAN
ATTACHÉ TO THE BRITISH CONSULATE-GENERAL

WITH MANY ILLUSTRATIONS IN THE TEXT AND FOUR COLOURED REPRODUCTIONS FROM PERSIAN PAINTINGS


MACMILLAN AND CO., LIMITED: ST. MARTIN'S STREET, LONDON; 1910


FIRST EDITION

pp.xiv+279+[1, colophon]

Decorative original blue cloth, upper cover stamped in gilt and embellished with red Persianate designs,
spine lettered in gilt.

4 color reproductions from Persian paintings, photographic plates, and numerous illustrations in text.

Some wear of the binding, very good intrerior

Sykes purports to translate an account of a pilgrimage to Meshhed by Nurullah Khan, Iranian poet and historian, but the book is actually a heavily fictionalised account of his own time in Persia, richly embellished with his own photographs and quotations from Persian poetry.


Sykes (1867-1945), one of the great scholar-administrators, undertook his first Persian journey - a six-month horseback tour - in 1893.
He was appointed British consul for Kerman and Persian Baluchistan the following year.
He continued to travel widely in the region during a succession of similar postings, "earning his reputation as an authority on Persian history, geography, and customs" (ODNB).

A fictional tale which the author intended to be "a second Hajji Baba, which would serve as a true picture of Persia some ten years ago, before constitutional reform appeared on the horizon.

" The story is set in Kerman and Baluchistan and is the tale of a pilgrimage to Mashad.

Sykes was the British Consul General in Mashad at the time of writing.

 Size 6 by 9"

Text in English
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