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050	0	0	_aDS272. _bM35 1815
100	1		_aMalcolm, John, 1769-1833.
245	1	4	_aThe history of Persia, from the most early period to the present time : _bcontaining an account of the religion, government, usages, and character of the inhabitants of that kingdom : in two volumes, Vol. I / _cBy Colonel Sir John Malcolm.
260			_aLondon : _bJohn Murray, _c1815.
300			_axxii, 644 pages : _billustrations, maps ; _c30 cm.
500			_a“Sir John Malcolm (1769–1833) was a British soldier, colonial administrator, diplomat, linguist, and historian. He was born in Scotland, left school at age 12, and, through an uncle, secured a position in the East India Company. While stationed in various parts of India as an officer in the company’s military forces, he became interested in foreign languages, which he studied diligently. He became fluent in Persian and, over the years, served as an interpreter and British envoy to Persia in various capacities. In 1815, he published his The History of Persia, From the Most Early Period to the Present Time, which earned him literary fame and an honorary doctorate from Oxford University. In two volumes, the book covers the period from the legendary Pishdadian Dynasty to the early 19th century. Malcolm drew on both written sources and his own extensive experiences in India and Persia. Volume 2 is particularly valuable as an account of Persia in the early 1700s, with descriptions of the country’s rulers, religions, government, and society. Although Malcolm deeply admired Persian culture and civilization, he believed that the country badly needed political reform, a subject that he addressed in the concluding section of the book. Translated into French in 1821 and German in 1830, The History of Persia was the standard Western work on Persia until the appearance, in 1915, of Percy Molesworth Sykes’s A History of Persia”—Copied from website.
500			_aThe Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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651		0	_aIran – History.
651		0	_aIran – History – Bibliography.
651		0	_aIran – Kings and rulers.
856			_qPDF _uhttps://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds272_m35_1815 _zScanned for ACKU.
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