Identifier: cu31924028627036 Title: Persia past and present; a book of travel and research, with more than two hundred illustrations and a map Year: 1906 (1900s) Authors: Jackson, A. V. Williams (Abraham Valentine Williams), 1862-1937 Subjects: Zoroastrianism Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. Contributing Library: Cornell University Library Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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Text Appearing Before Image: Tomb of Ayicenna (Iex Sixa)

Text Appearing After Image: Tl^Mli THE TOMB OF A7ICENNA 167 The tomb itself is a simple brickwork building, rectangularin shape, and surrounded by an unpretentious walled court-yard which is haunted by dervishes, pilgrims, and loiterers.A carved and inscribed slab covers the dust of the great thinker,and by his side rest the remains of his contemporary. SheikhAbu Said, the Persian mystic poet and author of quatrainverses in allegorical and symbolic style, who is said to havebeen acquainted with Ibn Sina.^ A modern inscription writteninside the tomb records the fact that this final resting-place ofHis Holiness Sheikh Abu Said and the Prince of Sages, BuAli Sina (Avicenna), had fallen into ruins and had beenrestored by the Princess Nigar Khanum of the royal line ofthe Kajar family in the year 1877 (a.h. 1294).^ Still another poetical shrine, situated not far from the Gum-bad-i Alavian in the northwestern section of the city, is thetomb of another pre-Khayyamite, the dervish poet Baba TahirUryan (d. 1019), a native

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