Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah's Beard by Jubber, Nicholas -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Title Page Dedication Preface Epigraph Prologue PART ONE - IRAN

1 - The Inside-Out City 2 - The Most Persian Persian

THE TALE OF SIYAVASH

3 - The Snake-Shouldered Tyrant 4 - In the Land of Fire

THE TALE OF ZOROASTER THE TALE OF SHAPUR II

5 - Minstrels in the Mountains

PART TWO - AFGHANISTAN

6 - The Prisoner Poets 7 - Tea with a Warlord

PART THREE - IRAN AND CENTRAL ASIA

8 - Tahmineh’s Secret

TEHRAN. APRIL. THE TALE OF BIZHAN AND MANIZEH (PART ONE)

9 - The Man in the Moon

THE TALE OF BIZHAN AND MANIZEH (PART TWO) TEHRAN. A FEW WEEKS LATER.

10 - Poets, Polymaths, and Pleasure-Daughters

WHEN I THINK OF CENTRAL ASIA, I THINK OF . . .

PART FOUR - AFGHANISTAN

11 - The Adventures of Abbas 12 - How to Walk Like an Afghan 13 - A Holiday House in Helmand

THE TALE OF ROSTAM’S SEVEN COURSES

PART FIVE - IRAN

14 - The Bird in the Coffee Cup 15 - Drinking Arak Off an Ayatollah’s Beard

THE TALE OF ZAL AND RUDABA

PART SIX - AFGHANISTAN

16 - The Road to Ghazni 17 - Insultin’ the Sultan

Epilogue Acknowledgements Glossary Bibliography Copyright Page

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