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Title: Harper's New Monthly Magazine Volume 34 December 1886 to May 1887
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: New York: Harper & Brothers Publishers
Contributing Library: Brigham Young University-Idaho, David O. McKay Library
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at he but dim-ly perceived the complex character of wo-man, or he would have said, instead, Theproper study of mankind is woman.But at Teheran one sees but rarely theface of a woman, unless she be a Nestori-an, an Armenian, or a Guebre, or Fire-worshipper, who all go but slightly dis-guised, or if he be a Mussulman, in whichcase he may have all the concubines hepleases. It is a little singular that thereare still about twenty-five thousand Gue-bres left in Persia; persecuted from the DOMESTIC AND COURT CUSTOMS OF PERSIA. 227 time of the Mohammedan conquest, a few secular law cajled the Urf, based on oralfaithful ones still cling- to the cult of Cy- traditions and practice, and employed inrus and Darius. Unlike the Mohammed- unimportant cases; but the Shahr is al-an Persians, they have intermarried with ways the final authority. The laws re-no other race, and thus present to-day the lating- to marriage and the relations oforiginal Persian race. the sexes are a marvel of minuteness, and
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STROLLING MUSICIANS. The laws of Persia are theocratic. They form the most extraordinary reading- in are founded on the Koran, and a system existence. As it is simply impossible for has been deduced which, like the common any one to remember and practice every law, consists of the opinions of priests of one of the reg-ulations which g-overn the especial sanctity and wisdom. This code great question of the sexes and domestic is called the Shahr. There is a lesser and life, a large portion of this burdensome ?2S HARPEES NEW MONTHLY MAGAZINE. code is praciically a dead letter: but Persian it takes the place of a club—the eiioiigrh yet remaius in practice to produce more so as clubs, theatres, and other an extraordinary system. Every Persian places for evening resort would not be house is constructed upon a plan of secre- permitted in Persia. The influence of the cy: no windows are visible from the streets: women would be suflicient to pievent the but the interior is constructed around

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