Vahābī va Vahābīyat: Persiska (Farsi) 1401

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1834. ... " any splendid apartments; all the married members of the reign" ing family have their own chambers, and there are many rooms " for guests, with whom the house is constantly filled; for all the " chiefs of tribes, who come to Dereyah on business, are invited to " the mansion or palace of the great Shaik. There are not any " Khans, or public inns, so that every stranger quarters himself " upon some inhabitant, and the people of Dereyah are proverbially " hospitable. The immediate neighbourhood is barren, yielding " only some date trees. Dereyah is supplied with provisions " chiefly from Dhoroma, a large and populous village, one day's ' journey to the east, or north east." NOTE IX. " The lamentable business at Kerbela."--Page 27. Paragraph of a letter from the Resident at Bagdad, to the Chairman of the East India Company, dated Bagdad. " The enclosed copies A and B„ of political dispatches, from me " to the Governor-General, contain so ample a statement of affairs " here, that I have little to trouble you with in addition to them, " farther than to mention that the most credible accounts of the " value of the plunder obtained by the Wahaubys at Imaum " Hossein, i. e. Kerbela, amount to three millions of piastres." Extract of a letter from the Resident at Bagdad to the GovernorGeneral, dated Bagdad, May 5, 1802.