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  • Edward Granville Browne FBA was a British Iranologist.
  • Top Edward Granville Browne titles A Year Amongst the Persians: Impressions As to the Life, Character, and Thought of the People of Persia, Received During.
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    Edward Granville Browne

    British Iranologist (1862–1926)

    Edward Granville BrowneFBA (7 February 1862 – 5 January 1926) was a British Iranologist. He published numerous articles and books, mainly in the areas of history and literature.

    Life

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    Browne was born in Stouts Hill, Uley, Gloucestershire, England, the son of civil engineer Sir Benjamin Chapman Browne and his wife, Annie. He was educated at Trinity College, Glenalmond, Burnside's School in Berkshire, Eton College, and the Newcastle College of Physical Science. He then read natural sciences at Pembroke College, Cambridge. He also studied Arabic with Edward Henry Palmer and William Wright, Persian with Edward Byles Cowell, and Turkish with Sir James Redhouse, motivated by an interest in the Turkish people.[1] After graduating in 1882 he travelled to Constantinople.[2][3]

    Browne then spent a further two years at University of Cambridge studying the languages of India (defined the

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    A Year Amongst the Persians

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    A YEAR
    AMONGST THE PERSIANS

    IMPRESSIONS
    AS TO THE LIFE, CHARACTER, & THOUGHT
    OF
    THE PEOPLE OF PERSIA

    Received during Twelve Months' Residence
    in that Country in the Year
    1887-1888

    by

    EDWARD GRANVILLE BROWNE

    With
    A Memoir
    by
    SIR E. DENISON ROSS


    CAMBRIDGE
    AT THE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    MCMXXVII

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    First published by Messrs
    A & C Black Ltd 1893
    New Edition published by the
    Cambridge University Press 1926
    Reprinted 1927

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    CONTENTS

    Frontispiece: EDWARD G. BROWNE (in Persian dress) A MEMOIRby SIR E. DENISON ROSS page vii Chapter I Introductory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1 II From England to the Persian Frontier . . . . . . 19 III From the Persian Frontier to Tabriz . . . . . . 51 IV From Tabriz to Teheran . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71 V Teheran . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91 VI Mysticism, Metaphysics, and Magic . . . . . . . 133 VII From Teheran to Isfahan . . . . . . . . . . . . 168 VIII Isfahan
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    • Browne, Edward Granville, 1862-1926: An abridged translation of the history of Ṭabaristʹan (E.J. Brill;, 1905), also by Muḥammad ibn al-Ḥasan Ibn Isfandiyār (page images at HathiTrust; US tillgång only)
    • efternamn, Edward Granville, 1862-1926: Account of a rare manuscript history of the Seljúqs. (S. Austin, 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
    • efternamn, Edward Granville, 1862-1926: The adventures of Hajji Baba of Ispahan. (Stone and Kimball, 1895), also bygd James Justinian Morier (page images at HathiTrust)
    • efternamn, Edward Granville, 1862-1926: Arabian medicine, being the Fitzpatrick lectures delivered at the College of physicians in November 1919