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Title: Cyclopedia universal history : embracing the most complete and recent presentation of the subject in two principal parts or divisions of more than six thousand pages
Year: 1895 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history Ethnology World history
Publisher: Boston : Balch Bros.
Contributing Library: UMass Amherst Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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e ■women. comparison would be stillmore favorable to the former people. Inthe homes of the better class of Persiansthere is elegance of manners, luxurioussurroundings, and many forms of com-fort. The children are reared at first bynurses, and are afterwards committedto the schools under charge of Moham-medan instructors. The women are ingreat measure secluded, and are partiallyveiled in public. Notwithstanding theserious and rather sinister expression ofthe Persian face, the countenance of thewoman is often regular and beautiful.The artist in search of fine types of beautyand elegance, even after he has studiedthe faces of the women of Cashmere andGeorgia, may well pause to admire thesweetness and warm expression of thePersian women. Just as the social system of the Per-sians has been derived from Islam, soalso the architecture of the Architecture ofcountry has been copied ^^^^^from the Mohammedan medan styles,countries. The original type of thismanner of building was arabesque; but
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iMUssUIMAiN NLI~,;- \MitHIIJj IM ^ S AND COb 1 b MkiDrawn by Adrien Marie, from a photograph by Madame Dieula£oy THE IRANIANS.—ARCHITECTURE. 625 this style has suffered considerable modi-fication in the hands of Persian archi-tects. In the building of mosques andtombs the Arabian manner has been wellpreserved. Indeed, the forms and cere-monial of Islam made this necessary.The minaret is everywhere a partof the Mohammedan church andreligious establishment. If the cir-cular domes are not also a necessaiy ^part, they are at least a part estab- ^lished by the usage of eleven cenfuries. These features of buildim^assert themselves strongly in themajor architecture of the Persians.Some of the finest edifices of this !^ *^*^^*style are the tombs of the Persiangreat, seen in many cities and sacredplaces. One of the most remarkable of these structures, typical of all, but 13reeminent byits vast- Tomb-buildlng ^ ■ of the race; the ness and elaboration, burialto-wer. ■ ., , -i <- t IS t

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