Excerpts below are from Sohrabi, Naghmeh. Taken for Wonder: Nineteenth Century Travel Accounts from Iran to Europe. New York: Oxford University Press, 2012. Bold is mine. The number of known accounts of travels by Iranians in the Qajar period (1794-1925)…
My translation, based on the Farsi version, publication forthcoming: Mirza I’tisam al-Din. Shigarfnamah Vilayet. Toronto: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 2014. On the Features of London Buildings Stone buildings are few and brick buildings many. But churches, old and new, are…
My translation, based on the Farsi version, publication forthcoming: Mirza I’tisam al-Din. Shigarfnamah Vilayet. Toronto: Foundation for Iranian Studies, 2014. Arriving in England After a week I arrived at a small coastal town in England. P 86 I mostly went…