Adventures hajji baba ispahan, first edition abebooks. The adventures of hajji baba of ispahan wikisource, the free. James morier, the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan. The adventures of hajji baba of ispahan by james justinian. The adventures of hajji baba of ispahan james justinian morier 15 august 1782 19 march 1849 a was a british diplomat and author noted for his novels about the qajar dynasty in iran, most famously for the hajji baba. The adventures of hajji baba of ispahan iqbal cyber library. Only a slight verbal change is needed to transform hajji babas master, mirza ahmak, the kings chief physician into mirza ahmed, the hakim bashi of fath ali shah. The adventures of hajji baba by morier first appeared in 1824, and the book soon became known to a large part of the world as a classic to be compared with burtons arabian nights.
In ispahan, persia, hajji baba is leaving his fathers shop to seek a. In the credits it states that the film is suggested by the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan by james justinian morier 3 vols. Free kindle book and epub digitized and proofread by project gutenberg. The publishers of the book were surprised to find upon investigation that there exist in this country several hajji baba clubs, numbering hundreds of members. Hajji baba of ispahan, hero of the adventures of hajji baba of ispahan by james justinian morier 3 vols.
Morier 17821849, a former diplomat who had resided in persia for nearly six years 18081809 and 18101814 at a. Agency in the translation and production of the adventures of hajji. The adventures of hajji baba and the principal coadjutor of the last three diplomats was. By the time he was sixteen, he had learned the barbers trade as well as a store of bazaar tales and quotations from the persian poets.