Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Next-of-Kin Marriages in Old Iran: An Address Delivered Before the Bombay Branch Royal Asiatic Society, on the 15th and 22nd April, 1887
In all the inquiries which have long engaged the attention of European Orientalists, their efforts have been directed almost exclusively to verifying the testimony of classical reports to the effect that marriage between the nearest blood relations was not an uncommon practice among the Old Iranians in the times of the Achaemenidae, the Arsacidae and the sasadidae. Nay, it has even come to pass that several European savants have claimed to have discovered positive evidence of such marriages in the Sacred Writings and in the later Pahlavi works of the Irfinians them selves. Guided solely by their Opinions, the Rev. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
