Hasan Fasa'i (; 1821 – 26 November 1898) was an Iranian writer who authored ''
Fars-Nama-ye Naseri
''Fars-Nama-ye Naseri'' (, literally "Naseri's Book on Fars") is a Persian-language book on geography and history of Fars province in Iran, with illustrations and maps, by Hasan Fasāʾī (1821–1898). Authorship of this book was assigned by Nas ...
''. He was born in
Fasa
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and died in
Shiraz
Shiraz (; ) is the List of largest cities of Iran, fifth-most-populous city of Iran and the capital of Fars province, which has been historically known as Pars (Sasanian province), Pars () and Persis. As of the 2016 national census, the popu ...
, both in modern-day
Fars province
Fars Province or Pars Province, also known as Persis or Farsistan (فارسستان), is one of the 31 provinces of Iran. Its capital is the city of Shiraz.
Pars province has an area of 122,400 km2 and is located in Iran's southwest, i ...
.
Sources
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* Idem, "Merchants of Shiraz in the Late 19th Century", a monograph prepared at the Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, 1987.
* A. Banuazizi and A. Ashraf, "The Urban Elite and Notables of Shiraz in the Late Nineteenth Century", paper presented at the 11th Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association, New York, November 1977.
* Fasāʾī, tr. Busse. D. Demorgny, "Les réformes administratives en Perse: Les tribus du Fars", RMM 22, 1913, pp. 85–150; 23, 1913, pp. 3–108 (based entirely on Fasāʾī's work).
* D. A. Lane, "Hajjī Mīrzā Ḥasan-i Shīrāzī on the Nomadic Tribes of Fārs in the Fārs-nāmeh-i Nāṣirī", JRAS, 1923, pp. 209–31.
External links
Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition
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Iranian essayists
People from Fasa
1821 births
1898 deaths
Iranian literary scholars
19th-century Iranian historians
19th-century essayists
People of Qajar Iran