After finishing his religious education and returning to his
hometown of Muhajiran Haj Sayyah realizes that his family's plans
for him to marry his cousin. Partly wanderlust and partly wanting
to escaped this, he sets off for what would be an eighteen year
trip through Europe, America and the Orient.
Haj Sayyah's diaries are unique. While hundreds of Europeans
travelled to Persia and wrote travel diaries, few Iranians
travelled to Europe and even fewer with such limited means. He
travels through practically every country in Europe, where he gives
detailed reports. Later, in separate trips he also visits America
and the Far East.
In the Caucasus he learned Armenian, Turkish and Russian. He
also learns French, English, Arabic and German. He was astonished
to see how much the Europe had progressed and concluded that
education was the basis for their advancement.
In spite of his Muslim religious training, Sayyah had a positive
attitude towards modern European customs. He mingled with people
from all social classes and developed a fair understanding of their
ideas; he saw that they were free to openly criticize their
governments and religious authorities. He visited museums, schools,
libraries, churches, factories, parks, zoos and botanical gardens,
even prisons, and met some of the famous personalities of the time
such as King George of Greece, Czar Alexander II of Russia, and
Belgium's King Leopold I.
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