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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: f its rival city Kum, is wrapped in obscurity, but Firdausi assumes that it was in existence in the time of Kei Khosru, the legendary king who is supposed to have reigned about eight centuries before the Christian era, for the great warrior Kamus is frequently alluded to as the hero of Kashan.^ Persian history also records that Kashan and Kum furnished about twenty thousand men to the army that fought in vain against the Caliph Omar, at the time 1 This is the leaning tower of Zein from Mme. Dleulafoys work), and the ad-Din, a picture of which is given valuable account of the province of by Mme. J. Dieulafoy, La Perse., Kashan by Houtum-Schindler, East- p. 198, Paris, 1887; see also Landor, em Persian Irak, pp. 109-118, Lon- Aeross Coveted Lands, 1. 26,3, and com- don, 1897. pare the description of Kashan by 2 Firdausi, Shah Ndmah, ed. Vul- Curzon, Persia, 2. 12-16 (who repro- lers-Landauer, 2. 870, 918, etc., and duces the picture of the leaning tower transl. Mohl, ,3. 1, 58, 97, etc.

Text Appearing After Image: Domed Ruois uf Kashan


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