A Hand-List of the Muhammadan Manuscripts: Including All Those Written in the Arabic Character, Preserved in the Library of the University of Cambridge. E-book. Formato PDF Edward G. Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

Of course it was evident from the first that there would remain a considerable residue of untitled mss., manu scripts, that is to say, which in the nature of things lacked a title (such as collections of letters, memoranda, common-place books, miscellanies and the like), or which were so mutilated as to render identification impossible, or which had accidentally been left untitled, and which I could not identify with the means at my disposal. These untitled manuscripts had, therefore, to be arranged according to subjects (the system employed by Dr Rieu in his British Museum Catalogues being generally followed) in a separate class, which constitutes Part II of this volume. Lastly, for the Library officials (whose point of view must necessarily be bibliographical rather than literary, and by whom one work in four volumes is regarded as four manu scripts, while one volume containing four separate works is regarded as one) it was necessary to arrange all the mss. According to order of class-marks, and to indicate opposite each the article or articles under which its description might be found. This portion constitutes Part III of this volume, which concludes with an Index of proper names (those of authors, scribes and former owners being distinguished by appropriate signs, according to the plan adopted in my Persian Catalogue), including some titles of books mentioned out of the alphabetical order adopted in Part I, and a few references of a more general Character.

The Persian Revolution of 1905-1909. E-book. Formato PDF Edward G. Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

To discuss the general question of the value of small nationalities would, however, unduly enlarge this Preface; but, even those (and in these days they are, alas! Many) who would deny this value will perhaps admit that certain exceptional races, such as the Greeks in Europe, have contributed so much to the spiritual, intellectual and artistic wealth of the human race that they have an exceptional claim on our sympathies, and that their submergence must be reckoned a calamity which no expediency can justify. What Greece owes to this feeling is known to all, and I suppose that few would deny that modern Greece owes her independence to her ancient glories. And Persia, I venture to think, stands, in this respect, in the same category. Of all the ancient nations whose names are familiar to us Persia is almost the only one which still exists as an independent political unit within her old frontiers (sadly contracted, it is true, since Darius the Great caused to be en graved on the rocks of Bagastana or Bisutt'm, in characters still legible, the long list of the provinces which obeyed him and brought him tribute), inhabited by a people still wonderfully homogeneous, considering the vicissitudes through which they have passed, and still singularly resembling their ancient for bears. Again and again Persia has been apparently submerged by Greeks, Parthians, Arabs, Mongols, Tartars, Turks and Afghans; again and again she has been broken up into petty states ruled by tribal chiefs and yet she has hitherto always re emerged as a distinct nation with peculiar and well-marked idiosyncrasies.

A Literary History of Persia. E-book. Formato PDF Edward Granville Browne   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

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