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Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN


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Text Appearing Before Image: er frame of mind for a visit to Shiraz. Although the city is the capital of the historic province ofPars and by right of inheritance the successor to the glory ofPersepolis, the claim which Shiraz can make to eminence byreason of antiquity is not comparable with that of eitherHamadan or Rei in Media of old. The general location of thecity, it is true, is probably an ancient one, as shown by thevestiges of Achtemenian and Sasanian ruins in the vicinity, andIranian legend and Mohammedan fable are even ready toascribe the founding of the city to a son of Tahumars or toa great-grandson of Noah, but the more sober Moslem authorssay that Shiraz was founded or rebuilt by Mohammed ibnYusuf Takali after the Rise of Islam in the seventh centuryof our era.2 The Arab traveller Ibn Haukal mentions its 1 On this title see Browne, Episode ^ For the statement regarding Tahu- of the Bab, 2. 294, n. 1, 354, u. 2, Cam- mars, see Yakut, p. 362, and for thebridge, 1891. more conservative view, see the re-

Text Appearing After Image: The New Mosque (Masjid-i Nu) at ^hiraz


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