Author: Victoria Sackville-WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bakhtiari (Iran)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Twelve Days
Author: Victoria Sackville-WestPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bakhtiari (Iran)
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
Twelve Days in Persia
Author: Vita Sackville-WestPublisher: I.B. Tauris
ISBN: 9781845119331
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A year after Vita Sackville-West first travelled to Iran - a journey described in the classic Passenger to Teheran - she returned to the land that had so captured her imagination. For twelve days, with her husband and three friends, she embarked on a difficult and often dangerous journey through the rugged and wildly-beautiful Bakhtiari Mountains of south-western Iran. It was a landscape that affected Sackville-West profoundly, inspiring what is arguably some of her most lyrical prose; in the same year she wrote her acclaimed poem, The Land. Interwoven with her magical descriptions of the landscape, she also wrote of her encounters with the Bakhtiari tribe as they embarked on their epic annual migration. The way of life of the Bakhtiari, a people claiming descent from Fereydun, hero of the Shahnameh, has now all but disappeared, the result of persecution by Reza Shah and the encroachments and temptations of modernity. Sackville-West's descriptions of their everyday life are thus a valuable and illuminating portrayal a vanished world. A book that reveals as much about its author as the country through which she travelled, Twelve Days in Persia is a classic of travel writing on Iran and a must-have for all Bloomsbury devotees.
Twelve Days in Persia
Author: V. Sackville-WestTwelve Days
Author: Vita Sackville-WestPublisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN: 9781502577023
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH (9 March 1892 - 2 June 1962), best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate. The Edwardians (1930) and All Passion Spent (1931) are perhaps her best known novels today. Sackville-West's science-fantasy Grand Canyon (1942) is a "cautionary tale" (as she termed it) about a Nazi invasion of an unprepared United States. The book takes an unsuspected twist, however, in that makes it something more than a typical invasion yarn.
Sufism in the Secret History of Persia
Author: Milad MilaniPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317544587
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
Sufism formed one of the cultures of resistance which has existed in the social fabric of Persia since antiquity. Such resistance continues to manifest itself today with many looking to Sufism as a model of cooperation between East and West, between traditional and modern. 'Sufism in the Secret History of Persia' explores the place of Sufi mysticism in Iran's intellectual and spiritual consciousness through traditional and contemporary Sufi thinkers and writers. Sufism in the Secret History of Persia examines the current of spirituality which extends from the old Iranian worship of Mithra to modern Islam. This current always contains elements of gnosis and inner knowing, but has often provided impetus for socio-political resistance. The study describes how these persisting pre-Islamic cultural and socio-religious elements have secretly challenged Muslim orthodoxies and continue to shape the nature and orientation of contemporary Sufism.
Persia and the Persian Question
Author: Marquess George Nathaniel Curzon Curzon of KedlestonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Eastern question (Central Asia).
Languages : en
Pages : 704
Book Description
The Foreign Missionary of the Presbyterian Church
Author: Don Juan of Persia
Author: G. Le StrangePublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134284594
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Don Juan was a Persian Moslem who became a Spanish Roman Catholic. His description of Persia and his account of the wars waged by the Persians during the sixteenth century considerably add to modern day knowledge of the history of the period.
Explorers Journal
Author: Ernest IngersollPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Explorers
Languages : en
Pages : 332
Book Description
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