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Titre
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En
Khurasan and Sistan
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Fr
Khorassan et Sistan
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Type
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Travelogue
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Identifiant
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LCCN 01025237
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Auteur.e.s
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Yate, Charles Edward, Sir (1849–1940)
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Résumé
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En
Account by the British colonial officer Sir Charles Edward Yate of his travels through the eastern Persian provinces of Khurasan and Sistan, written as a continuation of his earlier Northern Afghanistan. A veteran of the Afghan Boundary Commission (1884–1886) who witnessed the Panjdeh Incident of March 1885 that nearly triggered war between Britain and Russia, Yate later served as Governor-General to Khurasan and Sistan, residing at Mashhad, before becoming Chief Commissioner of Baluchistan in 1900. Organised chapter by chapter along his itinerary — the Persian North-East frontier, Mashhad, Turbat-i-Haidari and Tabas, Qa'in and Birjand, Sistan, the banks of the Helmand, and the Perso-Afghan border — the work combines detailed, matter-of-fact travel reportage with political analysis informed by Yate's extensive Great Game experience on the Russo-Afghan-Persian frontiers, including his assessment of comparative Russian and Turkoman administration. Of relevance for the study of Shi'i religious geography, Yate's chapters on Mashhad document the holiest Shi'i shrine city in Persia during the mature Naseri-into-Mozaffari period, while his eastern provincial itinerary through Sistan and the Perso-Afghan frontier traces regions where Twelver Shi'ism met Sunni Baluch and Afghan populations, offering a frontier perspective distinct from the Isfahan- and Tehran-centred ta'zieh accounts that dominate this collection.
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Fr
Recit de l'officier colonial britannique Sir Charles Edward Yate relatant ses voyages a travers les provinces persanes orientales du Khorassan et du Sistan, redige comme suite a son ouvrage anterieur Northern Afghanistan. Veteran de la Commission de delimitation afghane (1884-1886) et temoin de l'incident de Panjdeh en mars 1885, qui faillit declencher une guerre entre la Grande-Bretagne et la Russie, Yate servit plus tard comme gouverneur general du Khorassan et du Sistan, residant a Mashhad, avant de devenir commissaire en chef du Beloutchistan en 1900. Organise chapitre par chapitre selon son itineraire — la frontiere nord-est persane, Mashhad, Turbat-i-Haidari et Tabas, Qa'in et Birjand, le Sistan, les rives du Helmand et la frontiere perso-afghane —, l'ouvrage allie un reportage de voyage detaille et factuel a une analyse politique nourrie de la vaste experience de Yate sur les frontieres russo-afghano-persanes du Grand Jeu, incluant son evaluation comparative de l'administration russe et turkmene. D'un interet pour l'etude de la geographie religieuse chiite, les chapitres de Yate sur Mashhad documentent la ville-sanctuaire chiite la plus sainte de Perse durant la periode nasserienne mure et le debut de la periode mozaffarite, tandis que son itineraire dans les provinces orientales a travers le Sistan et la frontiere perso-afghane trace des regions ou le chiisme duodecimain rencontrait les populations sunnites baloutches et afghanes, offrant une perspective frontaliere distincte des recits centres sur Ispahan et Teheran qui dominent cette collection.
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Edition
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William Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London
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Date
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1900
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Langue
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En
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Citation bibliographique
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Yate, Charles Edward. 1900. Khurasan and Sistan. Edinburgh and London: William Blackwood and Sons.
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Droits
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Public Domain