Persia by a Persian: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia

Isaac Adams

s.t., 1900 - Iran - 536 pages

Contents

• Personal History: 17
• Exiles on Their Way to Siberia: 18
• Four Brothers in Different Costumes: 33
• Isaac Adams Arrested: 42
• Funeral Procession of Jesse Stepbrother of the Patriarch: 49
• Medical Missionary: 57
• Yohannan in Native Costume: 63
• Report of My School: 68
• PART II: 76
• Medical Diploma of Isaac Adams: 77
• Darius Hystaspes: 82
• Death of Darius and His Wife: 89
• Nasreddin Shah Meeting Queen Victoria in 1889: 94
• Teheran: 96
• The Court of Persia: 102
• Shahr and the Urf: 109
• Plowing with Oxen: 115
• Bastinado Disfiguring Evil Doers How the Heads are Cut Off 117 to: 122
• Cultivating the Vineyard: 128
• The Condition and Needs of Persia: 129
• Houses and Cities: 133
• Education: 141
• Women Cleaning Cabbage: 146
• The Rural Districts: 148
• Agriculture: 155
• Threshing Wheat: 157
• Business Life: 162
• Bankers or Sarafs: 163
• Social and Home Life: 169
• Five Gentlemen on a Hunting Trip: 170
• Smoking Water Pipes: 176
• A Persian Smoking Water Pipe: 177
• The Passionate Love Songs: 185
• Christian Persian Mother at the side of the Cradle: 190
• Girls Life and Marriage: 192
• Dwelling Place of a Married Woman: 200
• Carrying Water and Reapers: 204
• Women in the Chamber of Sickness and Death: 206
• Christianity the Only Hope for Women: 213
• Young Christian Persian Lady and Indoor Costume: 214
• Their Courtship and Marriage: 225
• Nestorian Archbishop and Dr Adams in Nestorian Priest Costume: 226
• Funeral Services: 233
• Dr Adams Ordination Diploma: 235
• Lords Prayer Written in Eight Different Languages: 245
• Printing Press: 246
• Birth of Mohammed and Life to Fortieth Year 251256: 256
• Mohammed the Founder of Islam: 262
• The Story of the Prophets Fortunes at Medina: 268
• Ommar: 277
• The Character of Mohammed: 279
• The Wives of Mohammed: 287
• Mohammed and the Devil: 288
• Hijrah: 293
• Bismillah: 299
• Wuzu: 306
• Salatu SSafar: 312
• Hajj: 318
• David Bar Joseph in Hajj Costume: 325
• Idu LFitr: 326
• The Performance of Religious Duties: 333
• Grave and Burial Ceremonies: 340
• Heaven: 347
• Hell: 353
• A Mohammedan Lady Smoking a Water Pipe: 356
• The Validity of Marriage: 359
• The Religious Ceremony: 365
• Concubine: 374
• Widows: 381
• Fagir or Darwesh: 388
• Dancing Dervishes: 391
• AlHajaruLAswad: 394
• Mecca Certificate or a Passport to Heaven Plate I: 397
• Persian Snake Charmer: 408
• A Persian Lord and His Attendants: 410
• Watercarrier on the Ass: 417
• High Class Dervish and Medicine Dervish: 423
• Islam and Christianity: 425
• Dr Adams Mission School at MartMaryan: 435
• Mobammedan Sects: 440
• Jacob Adams in Highclass Costume: 443
• A Highwayman: 451
• Bab and Babism: 453
• Abbas Effendi or the Lord and Master as called by his Followers: 462
• A Message from Acca: 470
• To the Americans A DeclarationHe is God 497: 477
• Letter from Mrs Kheiralla to the Assembly in Chicago: 484
• The Kurds: 490
• Two Kurdish Men and a Boy: 491
• The Yezidees or Devil Worshipers: 497
• Three Syrians of the Kurdistan Mountains: 498
• The Devil Worship Priest: 507
• The Guebres or Fire Worshipers: 509
• Confirmation of a Youth among the Fire Worshipers and Priest of Fire Worship: 516
• History of Akbikar the Wise Secretary of Saukherib King of Ashur: 521
• Specimen of Ancient Syriac Language: 534

Bibliographic information

• Title: Persia by a Persian: Personal Experiences, Manners, Customs, Habits, Religious and Social Life in Persia
• Author: Isaac Adams
• Publisher: s.t., 1900
• Original from: University of Minnesota
• Digitized: Jan 3, 2013
• Length: 536 pages