volume Number 9، number In Volume 3، Fall 2016 ، issue Number 33

Introduction of Farangestan poetic travelogue and its stylistic features

Mohamad Rezaie(Author in Charge), Hossein Kia, Mahboubeh Asadinahad

Abstract

One of the main topics of texts and handwritten books is travelogs which many of them belong to Qajar era. Travelog (Safarnameh) are reports which are left from our ancestors and include a wide variety of fascinating and rich issues and if it is written in a skillful and artistic way it will be of double literary value.

Poetic travelog of Farangestan (overseas world) is one of those handwritten texts that is revised in here and that includes a description of Naser-e-din shah Qajar’s first travel to Europe, which the poet has put it into verses.

This edition is arranged into 46 sheets and 92 pages. The date of writing is not clearly mentioned but according to the evidence available it might have been written around 1295 AH.

The poet of the travelog is a person named “Ayugh”, which unfortunately not much could be found about him in spite of a comprehensive research

Poetic travelog of Farangestan handwritten texts one of texts valuable in Qajar era, which have recorded in national library on number 504 the date 1329.

Keyword
travelog , Ayugh , Naser-e-din Shah Qajar , the handwritten text of poeti