the second part of Âsâr-i ‘Ajam Fursat devotes the second part of Âsâr-i ‘Ajam to the city of Shiraz, his hometown. He returns there between travels and compares the city to the small towns he stays in during his voyages. Shiraz is a center of knowledge for the entire region and beyond, inhabited by friends […]
Fursat’s observations of Âsâr-i ‘Ajam The narrative of Âsâr-i ‘Ajam proceeds by diversions and detours that correspond to Fursat’s travels. To expand and clarify findings, Fursat subsequently interspersed the travelogues with chapters written once he returned from his journeys. The bulk of the information in the Âsâr-i ‘Ajam comes from Fursat’s observations, supplemented by the
short introduce Mîrzâ Muhammad Nâsir al-Hussaynî – better known as Fursat Shirazi (1854–1920) – was an explorer of different forms of knowledge more than a specialist in any of them. Fursat Shirazi was a self-taught painter who made aliving by painting portraits of the local and national aristocracy, to whom he was linked by relations
Shiraz is located in the south of Iran and counts today a population of about a million and a half. The lands surrounding the plain of Shiraz were foundational for the two major dynasties of pre-Islamic Iran, the Achaemenids (550–330BCE) and the Sassanids (206–651CE). Ever since, Shiraz and its region, known as Fars, have been
