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ARABIC AND PERSIAN MALCOLM (JOHN) The History of Persia [in Persian], 2 vol. in 1, [Bombay], 1870[-1873]
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ARABIC AND PERSIAN
Footnotes
VERY SCARCE PERSIAN TRANSLATION OF JOHN MALCOLM'S THE HISTORY OF PERSIA.
"The translation of Malcolm's history was the outcome of a British Mission to Iran in the 1860s for the purpose of establishing a telegraph line connecting India to Great Britain through Iran... The head of the mission Major General Frederic Jon Goldsmid, was the guest of the governor of Kirman, Muhammad Isma'il Khan Vakil-al-Mulk. Enjoying the governor's hospitality Goldsmid asked him how he could repay him. In response Vakil-al-Mul requested a Persian translation of Malcolm's History..." (Farzin Vejdani, Making History in Iran, 2014, p.25). Mirza Isma'il Hayrat travelled extensively throughout the Arabian peninsula before securing a job as a translator for the Bombay administration, and later a teacher at the Elphinstone College.
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