Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East — David Hume — John Shaqi
Behind the Veil in Persia and Turkish Arabia: An Account of an Englishwoman's Eight Years' Residence Amongst the Women of the East
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Home Life--Anderoon, women's quarters--Jealousy in
the anderoon--Anderoon of Khan Baba Khan--Two days in an
anderoon--H.R.H. Princess Hamadane Sultane--Visit to the anderoon
of H.R.H. the Zil-es-Sultan 84
Chapter VIII
More About Persian Women
Costumes--Wedding festivities--Wedding dinner--Kindness of Persian
husbands--Story of brutality--Divorce--Aids to beauty--Degradation
and cruelty of women 95
Chapter IX
Some Points in the Moslem Faith
Fasts and feasts--Seyyids, Dervishes, Mullahs--Legends of the
drowning mullah, and the yard-square hole 106
Chapter X
Other Religious Sects
The Bab and Babism--Short sketch of life of the Bab--His
imprisonment and execution--Parsees, or Zoroastrians--Persecutions
of Parsees in seventh century--Sacred writings of Parsees,
Zendavesta--Fire-worshipping--Fire temples--Holy fire--Parsee
wedding--Costume of women--Death customs--Burial customs 116
Chapter XI
Desert Delights
Songs of the desert--Sunsets, sunrises, mirages--Illness in the
desert--Mehman khanehs, caravanserais--Chappa khanehs--Lost in
the desert--Its cruelties and sadness 130
Chapter XII
Persian Medical Missions
The need of them--Work in Isphahan--The "little devil" transformed
into a boy--Amputation--Brothers in adversity--H.R.H. Zil-es-Sultan
as a patient--Fanaticism overcome 140
Chapter XIII
Pioneer Medical Mission Work in Kerman
Waiting for drugs and instruments--Native assistant proves
a broken reed--First operation in Kerman--An anxious
moment--Success--Doctrine of "savab" convenient to the
Moslem--Fanaticism tempered with prudence--Opium slaves--Persian
therapeutics--Persian quacks and their methods--Sure way of curing
cancer--Hysteria 151
Chapter XIV
Medical Mission Work in Yezd
A hospital--A friendly governor--A suspicious
case--Superstition--The opium habit--A case of cataract--We return
to England 164
Part II
Chapter I
The City of Nineveh
The fast of Jonah--The bridge of boats--Traditions as
to ancient history of Mosul--Elkos, birthplace of Nahum
the prophet--Shurgat--Climate of Mosul--Cultivation and
industries--Importance of Mosul 173
Chapter II
The People of Mosul
Population--Moslems--Christians--Chaldeans--Nestorians--Jacobites
--Arabs--Kurds--Jews--Yezidees--Recreations--Warfare
of the slingers--Hammam Ali--The recreation ground of Mosul men
and women 186
Chapter III
The River Tigris