Shadows in History ظلال في التاريخ

Shadows in History

Every story in its time and place
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On the travellers’ road

Six journeys read here, in the order they were made
  1. 1616 Pietro Della Valle Journey through the Middle East in Arabic
  2. 1655 Evliya Çelebi The battle of Bitlis, the Seyahatname in Arabic
  3. 1656 Father Sebastiani Through Iraq on the way to India in Arabic
  4. 1765 Carsten Niebuhr Iraq as he saw it, with a map in Arabic
  5. 1817 William Heude To the Gulf, and his route through Iraq in Arabic
  6. 1820 Al-Munshi al-Baghdadi Iraq through the British Resident’s secretary in Arabic

Eras

World-history periods; each story sits in the era it is about, not the year it was written

Prehistory2

before 3500 BCE

Early civilisations2

3500 BCE–500 BCE

Early post-classical14

500–1000

Late post-classical14

1000–1500

Early modern era31

1500–1800

19th century13

1800–1914

Contemporary era6

1914–now