Word: shah
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Dates: during 1870-1879
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Early in the morning, before the Muezzin summons the faithful in our own beautiful Teheran, I was told to go to a small mosque which they call Shah-pehl. Faithful to the customs of my country, I entered and took my seat cross-legged on the floor, in a narrow passage which ran down the middle. I noticed that much applause followed this simple action, and have since heard that these young dogs (I will pollute the tombs of their forefathers) call this expression of feeling the uhoodhup...
...touching love-episode, "Larli and Magnun," which takes about the same place in Persian literature as do "Abelard and Eloisa," "Petrarch and Laura," in the literature of France and Italy? "Larli and Magnun" has been translated into English by Mr. James Atkinson, who has also translated Firdansi's "Shah-Nameh," the history of the ancient kings of Persia. Or why did Mr. Emerson not speak of the "Adventures and Improvisations of Kourroglou," the bandit minstrel of North Persia, whose heroes remind one of those of "Cervantes and Ariosto"? Kourroglou's lament at the death of his steed Ayrat...
...imaginative faculty appears to be finely developed at Adrian College. The last number of the Recorder contains three original stories, a poem about Henry Wilson, and a reference to the "Shah" of Egypt...
...present names of the men are all derived from the original Eastern names. The name Chess is derived directly from Shah, while Queen is traced back to Vizier, through Vierge, Fierge, Fercia, Vizier. This game exists at the present day in nearly the same form in all parts of the world, and affords the same pleasure now as it did when it was first played on the banks of the sacred Ganges...