Travelers’ writings, Persian
Subject
Subject Source: Library Of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:
Manuscripts of the Islamicate World and South Asia
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Scope and Contents
This collection consists of over 700 manuscripts pertaining to the Islamicate world and South Asia, dating from the 10th to 19th centuries C.E. (the majority being post-1500). Chiefly bound paper codices, it includes sacred texts of importance to the Muslim, Hindu, and Sikh faiths, Qur’anic commentaries, Traditions of the Prophet Muhammad and the Shi’i Imams, works treating Islamic law, world history, the history of India, medicine,...
Dates:
10th-19th centuries C.E. (bulk: post-1500 C.E.)
Or Ms 90: مسیر طالبی Masīr-i Ṭālibī, [1219 A.H.], [1804 C.E.]
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Identifier: Or Ms 90
Scope and Contents
An account of the travels in Europe, 1213-1218 A.H. (1798-1803 C.E.), of Mīrzā Abū Ṭalib Khān b. Hājjī Muḥammad Beg Khān Hindī Isfahānī (d. 1220 or 1221 A.H., 1805-1806 C.E.) written by himself. The author, who was a Turk by descent, was born and brought up at Lucknow. Mukhtar al-Dawlah, the Prime Minister of Nawwāb Āṣif al-Dawlah, had appointed him 'Amal-dār of Etāwah and several other districts, but after the death of his patron he was superseded in his military command and pensioned....
Dates:
[1219 A.H.]; [1804 C.E.]
Or Ms 91: سفرنامهٔ میر عزّت الله Safar-nāmah-i Mīr 'Izzat-allāh, undated copy (original text composed 19th cent. C.E.)
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Identifier: Or Ms 91
Scope and Contents
The author, Mīr 'Izzat-allāh (died at Kabul, 1241 A.H., 1825 C.E.), states that under instructions from William Moorcroft he started from Shahjahanabad (Dehli) on the 7th of Rajab, 1227 A.H. (20th April, 1812 C.E), and travelled through Kashmir, Tibet, Tashqand, Kashghar, Bhajan, Qoqan, Samarqand, Peshawar, and returned to Atak in the month of Zulhijjah, 1228 A.H. (16th December, 1813 C.E.). He was assisted in compiling an account of his travels by his companion, Ḥāfiẓ Fāz̤il Khān, whom he...
Dates:
undated copy (original text composed 19th cent. C.E.)
Or Ms 468: Travels of James Rich in Kurdistan and Mesopotamia, 1237, 1822
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Identifier: Or Ms 468
Scope and Contents
A travelogue written for the British traveler, Claudius James Rich (1787-1821), by Sayyid Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Ḥasanī al-Munshī al-Baghdādī.The journey described was made in 1235/1820, beginning in Baghdad after Rich was forced to leave the city by the Ottoman governor Davud Pasha. It mostly occurs in western Iran and Kurdistan, including Kermanshah, Sanandaj (Sana), Mosul, Karkuk and Erbel, and then gives more succinct information about Mesopotamia, ending in...
Dates:
1237; 1822