Diary of His Majesty the Shah of Persia
During His Tour Through Europe in A.D. 1873
J.W. Redhouse
The
Qajar monarch, Nasir al-Din Shah, ruled Iran for the second half of the nineteenth-century
(1848-96), a momentous period in which the forces of colonialism and Western commercial
interests were fully unleashed on the Islamic world. On April19, 1873 the Shah set out on
a trip which was to take him to Russia, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Switzerland,
Italy, Austria, Turkey, and Georgia. During the tour he faithfully recorded his
impressions of Europe in a diary. Within a year of the Shah's visit to Europe, Sir James
W. Redhouse, a well known British Orientalist scholar had published a translation of the
Shah's diary. It remains a document of nineteenth-century social history which records a
vanished world of European imperialism and industrial and technological change. .
The
Qajar monarch, Nasir al-Din Shah, ruled Iran for the second half of the nineteenth-century
(1848-96), a momentous period in which the forces of colonialism and Western commercial
interests were fully unleashed on the Islamic world. On April19, 1873 the Shah set out on
a trip which was to take him to Russia, Germany, Belgium, England, France, Switzerland,
Italy, Austria, Turkey, and Georgia. During the tour he faithfully recorded his
impressions of Europe in a diary. Within a year of the Shah's visit to Europe, Sir James
W. Redhouse, a well known British Orientalist scholar had published a translation of the
Shah's diary. It remains a document of nineteenth-century social history which records a
vanished world of European imperialism and industrial and technological change. . 
