Reverand Samuel Graham Wilson's preparation for writing Persian Life and Customs was a fourteen year residence in Tabriz, Persia, as a missionary under the Presbyterian Board of American Foreign Missions. The result is an intimate portrait of the manners and customs of a much varied land, in which customs are not only stereotyped, they are not even uniform in differnt parts of the country or even of the same province. Popular in presentation, the early chapters describe the 'scenes and places visited en route to Persia', whilst the later ones describe the 'civil, religious, social, domestic, and commercial life of the people in cities, villages and tents'. The final chapter presents 'some of the methods and the results of missionary work among different races in Persia'.

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Modern Movements Among Moslems By Samuel Graham Wilson, D.D. This book represents an important and exhaustive study of the many modern movements (quite unknown to earlier Mohammedanism) which mark the progress and propaganda of the Islam today. Dr. Wilson writes out of a wide experience, and with firsthand knowledge.

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: advocated communism and community of wives." This learned investigator further says: " The extraordinary proceedings at Badasht seem to have scandalized not only the Mohammedans but even a section of the Babis."2 Mirza Jani, their first historian and a martyr, avers that not all " have understood the secret of what passed between Hazret-i- Kuddus and Kurrat-ul-Ayn at Badasht, and their real nature and what they meant."3 The Mohammedan historians openly accuse them of immorality. The Sheikh of Kum, a Bahai, told Professor Browne, " After the Bab had declared the law of Islam abrogated and before he had promulgated new ordinances, there ensued a period of transition which we call fitrat (the interval), during which all things were lawful. So long as this continued, Kurrat-ul-Ayn may very possibly have consorted, for example, with Hazret-i-Kuddus, as though he had been her husband." " It may be that the scandals that followed Kurrat- ul-Ayn's venture into public life and her tragic death in the cruel reprisals that followed the attempt of several Babis to assassinate the Shah, gave a backset to the efforts to liberate women in Persia. Certain it is that during the sixty years succeeding she has had no imitator or successor. Bahai women have continued to wear the veil and have remained secluded from the society of men, not only in Persiabut at Acca, the headquarters of Bahaism. The force of the new faith was not strong enough to free the women. Rather .they have compromised with their environment. Only in the Caucasus and Trans-Caspia under Russian protection, have they partly unveiled. Not even their women of the second and third generation have been trained to act up to their precepts, but in Acca, as in Persia, they are secluded from the society of even brethren in the faith. T...

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: advocated communism and community of wives." This learned investigator further says: " The extraordinary proceedings at Badasht seem to have scandalized not only the Mohammedans but even a section of the Babis."2 Mirza Jani, their first historian and a martyr, avers that not all " have understood the secret of what passed between Hazret-i- Kuddus and Kurrat-ul-Ayn at Badasht, and their real nature and what they meant."3 The Mohammedan historians openly accuse them of immorality. The Sheikh of Kum, a Bahai, told Professor Browne, " After the Bab had declared the law of Islam abrogated and before he had promulgated new ordinances, there ensued a period of transition which we call fitrat (the interval), during which all things were lawful. So long as this continued, Kurrat-ul-Ayn may very possibly have consorted, for example, with Hazret-i-Kuddus, as though he had been her husband." " It may be that the scandals that followed Kurrat- ul-Ayn's venture into public life and her tragic death in the cruel reprisals that followed the attempt of several Babis to assassinate the Shah, gave a backset to the efforts to liberate women in Persia. Certain it is that during the sixty years succeeding she has had no imitator or successor. Bahai women have continued to wear the veil and have remained secluded from the society of men, not only in Persiabut at Acca, the headquarters of Bahaism. The force of the new faith was not strong enough to free the women. Rather .they have compromised with their environment. Only in the Caucasus and Trans-Caspia under Russian protection, have they partly unveiled. Not even their women of the second and third generation have been trained to act up to their precepts, but in Acca, as in Persia, they are secluded from the society of even brethren in the faith. T...

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