Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs write by Manoutchehr M. Eskandari. This book was released on 2014. Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Life at the Court of the Early Qajar Shahs, a memoir translated into English for the first time, offers a uniquely intimate look at a world veiled by privilege and power. Its author, Soltan Ahmad Mirza, was a prince-the forty-ninth son of Fath Ali Shah Qajar, who ruled Iran from 1797 to 1834. Looking back over the reigns of his father and two other shahs, he assembled a vast wealth of detail about life at the apex of Persian society: the role of the ruler, the hierarchy of the harem, court eunuchs, ceremonies, diversions, disputes, occasional violence, and-as a nexus for it all-an extraordinarily intricate web of connections by birth and marriage. Among members of the royal family, Soltan Ahmad Mirza was revered for his vivid recollections of the past. When he set about composing his memoir in 1886, he widened his own knowledge by drawing extensively on the memories of women of the court-his mother (the favorite among his father's hundreds of wives), his sisters, aunts and other residents of the harem. As a result, for the first time in any work about the period, women shine and cut sharp and sometimes-splendid figures. They are not mere appendages to the greater glory of the ruler, passively submitting to the dominant religious and patriarchal structure. Rather, they are complete persons, some of them highly intelligent and resourceful, as related in the memoir's many vignettes about their influence in court matters. This translation not only includes the complete text of Soltan Ahmad Mirza's memoir, but is augmented with a great deal of additional contextual information and ancillary materials that makes the book an invaluable source to those interested in this important era of Iranian history. Dr. Eskandari-Qajar is founder/president of the International Qajar Studies Association (IQSA), a scholarly association dedicated to the study of the Qajar era. In 2009, he joined a team of scholars at Harvard University working on the NEH-funded Women's Worlds in Qajar Iran Harvard Project. The Project's aim is to safeguard digitally and make available documents, photographs and oral history of women in the Qajar era.
The Eye of the Shah
The Eye of the Shah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eye of the Shah write by Jennifer Chi. This book was released on 2015-11-24. The Eye of the Shah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Published by the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University and distributed by Princeton University Press on the occasion of the exhibition 'The eye of the Shah: Qajar court photography and the Persian past' at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World,' Oct. 22, 2015-Jan. 17, 2016
The Artist and the Shah
The Artist and the Shah - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Artist and the Shah write by Dust-Ali Khan Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek. This book was released on 2022-02-22. The Artist and the Shah available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. To the task of chronicling the waning years of Persia's Qajar court, Dust-Ali Khan "Mo`ayyer al-Mamalek" (1876-1966) brought matchless gifts. On his mother's side, he was the grandson of Naser al-Din Shah, ruler of Qajar Iran from 1848 to 1896; on his father's side, he was the descendant of a family of assayers and masters of the royal mint with roots in the Safavid era (1501-1736). He was also a painter and writer with a keen eye for atmosphere and detail. Throughout his long life, he kept journals of the rarefied and sometimes turbulent world in which he moved. Some of those records were incorporated by him into autobiography or descriptions of his grandfather's court-its modes of governance, festivals, royal hunts, palaces and gardens, life in the harem, and much more. The Artist and the Shah is the product of a seven-year labor of love by Manoutchehr Eskandari-Qajar, a dedicated historian of the Qajar era, to not only translate two of Dust-Ali Khan's memoirs but also to gather together 280 photographs from public archives and private collections. Most of the photographs are presented here for the first time in their proper context. Illuminated with the words of Dust-Ali Khan, they provide a uniquely intimate view of an era now long vanished.
Memories of a Bygone Age
Memories of a Bygone Age - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Memories of a Bygone Age write by Prince Arfa. This book was released on 2016-11-15. Memories of a Bygone Age available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Set against the backdrop of Iran’s struggle against the rising powers of Russia and Britain, the memoirs of Mirza Riza Khan Arfa’-ed-Dowleh—otherwise known as Prince Arfa (1853–1902)—are packed with picaresque adventures as the prince tells the story of his rise from humble provincial beginnings to the heights of the Iranian state. With this translation, his incredible story is brought to life for the first time in English. Prince Arfa writes with arresting wit about the deadly intrigues of the Qajar court. Lamentingly, but resolutely, he chronicles the decline of Iran from a once great empire to an almost bankrupt, lawless state, in which social unrest is channelled and exploited by the clergy. He describes the complex interactions between Iran and Europe, including an account of Naser-od-Din Shah’s profligate visits to Britain and France; the splendor and eccentricities of the doomed Tsar Nicholas II’s court; the Tsar’s omen-laden coronation; and his own favor with the Tsarina, who would grant him concessions on matters of vital importance to his country. The result is a memoir of extraordinary political intrigue.
The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, During His Tour Through Europe in A.D. 1873. by J.W. Redhouse. a Verbatim Translation
The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, During His Tour Through Europe in A.D. 1873. by J.W. Redhouse. a Verbatim Translation - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, During His Tour Through Europe in A.D. 1873. by J.W. Redhouse. a Verbatim Translation write by Shah of Iran 1831-18 Nasir Al-Din Shah. This book was released on 2018-10-12. The Diary of H.M. the Shah of Persia, During His Tour Through Europe in A.D. 1873. by J.W. Redhouse. a Verbatim Translation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
