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The Glory of the Shia World, by P. M. Sykes and Khan Bahadur Ahmad din Khan, [1910], at sacred-texts.com


FROM A KERMAN CARPET

CONTENTS

 

PAGE

PROLOGUE (Persian and English)

xi


CHAPTER I

 

MY PARENTAGE AND BIRTH

1


CHAPTER II

 

A CAMPAIGN IN BALUCHISTAN

17


CHAPTER III

 

A PERSIAN ENTERTAINMENT

34


CHAPTER IV

 

AN AWFUL TRAGEDY

50


CHAPTER V

 

MY BETROTHAL AND MARRIAGE

65


CHAPTER VI

 

KERMAN, THE HEART OF THE WORLD

83


CHAPTER VII

 

THE DEATH OF MIRZA HASAN KHAN, MUSTAUFI 

102

p. vi

 


CHAPTER VIII

 

 

PAGE

MY FIRST MAMURIAT 

119


CHAPTER IX

 

THE PERSIAN NEW YEAR

188


CHAPTER X

 

THE PILGRIMAGE IS VOWED

161


CHAPTER XI

 

YEZD, THE PRISON OF ALEXANDER

177


CHAPTER XII

 

ROBBED IN THE LUT

191


CHAPTER XIII

 

THE ARRIVAL AT THE SACRED THRESHOLD

214


CHAPTER XIV

 

THE SACRED SHRINE OF THE IMAM RIZA

234


CHAPTER XV

 

THE PILGRIMAGE IS ACCEPTED

258


EPILOGUE

279


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