Hamideh Khanum Javanshir, Hamideh Khanum Javanshir, Willem Floor
Hamideh Khanum Javanshir grew up in a traditional Azerbaijani society where women were relegated to playing a self-effacing and submissive role with no identity of their own and no function in society outside the home and family. In 1907, she married Mirza Jalil Mamadqulizadeh founder and editor of the satirical journal Molla Nasreddin, which, through cartoons and articles, exposed injustice, superstition, abuse, and backwardness. The journal became tremendously influential throughout the Caucasus, Middle East, and Iran. Hamideh Khanum and Mirza Jalil's marriage was a union of...
Hamideh Khanum Javanshir grew up in a traditional Azerbaijani society where women were relegated to playing a self-effacing and submissive role wit...
Only 100 years ago the main means of transportation in Iran was by quadruped. Transportation & Technology in Iran, 1800-1940, by renowned Iranian studies scholar Willem Floor is an in-depth, illustrated, four-part study of the subject. Until the 1920s Iran had no more than 700 kilometres of roads suitable for motor vehicles, which situation greatly impeded Irans economic development. Caravans travelled 40 km/day, though travellers in a hurry could cover 150 km/day when using the courier system (chapar), which is the subject of part 1. Wheeled transportation,...
Only 100 years ago the main means of transportation in Iran was by quadruped. Transportation & Technology in Iran, 1800...
