سرزمین جاوید

Tauris (Tabriz) is a large and very noble city belonging to the province of Irak (Western Iran-today), which contains many other cities and fortified places, but this is the most eminent and most populous. The inhabitants support themselves principally by commerce and manufactures, which latter consist of various kinds of silk, some of them interwoven with gold, and of high price. It is so advantageously situated for trade, that merchants from India, from Baudas, Mosul, Cremessor, as well as from different parts of Europe, resort thither to purchase and to sell a number of articles. Precious stones and pearls in abundance may be procured at this place.
.The merchants concerned in foreign commerce acquire considerable wealth, but the inhabitants in general are poor. They consist of a mixture of various nations and sects, Nestorians, Armenians, Jacobites, Georgians, PERSIANS (Zoroastrians), AND THE FOLLOWERS OF MAHOMET (mohammad), who form the bulk of the population, and are those properly called Taurisians (Tabrizies).
Each description of people have their peculiar language. The city is surrounded with delightful gardens, producing the finest fruits.

THE MAHOMETAN inhabitants are TREACHEROUS and UNPRINCIPLED. According to their doctrine, whatever is stolen or plundered from others of a different faith, is properly taken, and the theft is no crime; whilst those who suffer death or injury by the hands of Christians, are considered as martyrs. If, therefore, they were not prohibited and restrained by the powers who now govern them, they would commit many outrages. These principles are common to all the Saracens.

When they are at the point of death, their priest attends upon them, and asks whether they believe that Mahomet was the true apostle of God. If their answer be that they do believe, their salvation is assured to them; and in consequence of this facility of absolution, they have succeeded in converting to their faith a great proportion of the Tartars

این رو اوردم اینجا شما دوستان نگاهی کنید . این قسمتی از سفرنامه مارکوپولو هست که به تبریز سفری میکنه. تاریخ نویسان خارجی برخلاف تاریخ نویسان ایرانی(البته داریم کسانی که واقعا شاهکار کردن) که به مدح فقط میپردازند به تمام جزییات نگاه میکنند و هر چیز رو که میبینند مینویست. نمونه دیگر از این نویسندگان دکتر ناصرالدین شاه هست که کتابی داره در مورد ایران و به چه زیبایی و خیلی ساده نوشته. در این سفر مارکوپولو مواردی رو اشاره میکنه که توصیه میکنم بخونید.

 

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