At the court of the Amir : (Record no. 41579)

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Transcribing agency ACKU
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Language code of text/sound track or separate title eng
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Classification number DS365.
Item number G739 1901
100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name Gray, John Alfred.
245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT
Title At the court of the Amir :
Remainder of title a narrative /
Statement of responsibility, etc by John Alfred Gray.
260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT)
Place of publication, distribution, etc London ;
-- New York :
Name of publisher, distributor, etc The Macmillan Company,
Date of publication, distribution, etc 1901.
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Extent xxi, 523 pages ;
Dimensions 30 cm.
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General note “At the Court of the Amīr: A Narrative is an account by John Alfred Gray, a British doctor who served as surgeon to ‘Abd al-Rahman Khan (circa 1844–1901), ruler of Afghanistan, for a number of years in the late 1880s‒early 1890s. Along with several British engineers, Gray had been recruited in England to provide advice and services to the amir. The book includes several chapters that relate specifically to health and the practice of medicine in Afghanistan at this time, including on Afghan hospitals, Afghan surgeons and physicians, an outbreak of cholera, and the illnesses and health of the amir and various members of the royal household. Other chapters cover primarily non-medical topics, such as Gray’s journey from Peshawar to Kabul, the inhabitants of Afghanistan, Afghan dwellings, life in Kabul, the seasons, and bazaars in Kabul. Gray recounts his meetings with the amir, who he describes as “a swarthy heavily built man,” who “seemed the personification of watchful strength,” and “who added to the courtesy of the Oriental something of the bluff heartiness of an Englishman.” He also describes his meetings with the sultana, wife of the amir, and conversations with her. A major role in the book is played by Gray’s interpreter, an Armenian Christian who had been educated at a missionary boarding school in India and had lived for many years in Kabul. A photograph of Gray and the interpreter, both in Oriental dress, is in the National Portrait Gallery in London”—copied from website.
General note The Library of Congress donated copies of the digitized material (along with extensive bibliographic records) containing more than 163,000 pages of documents to ACKU, the collections that include thousands of historical, cultural, and scholarly materials dating from the early 1300s to the 1990s includes books, manuscripts, maps, photographs, newspapers and periodicals related to Afghanistan in Pushto, Dari, as well as in English, French, German, Russian and other European languages ACKU has a PDF copy of the item.
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Language note English
600 20 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME
Personal name ʻAbd al-Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, -1901.
651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME
Geographic name Afghanistan – History.
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Electronic format type PDF
Uniform Resource Identifier <a href="https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds365_g739_1901 ">https://doi.org/10.29171/azu_acku_ds365_g739_1901 </a>
Public note Scanned for ACKU.
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Koha item type Monograph
Call number prefix azu_acku_ds365_g739_1901
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    Library of Congress Classification     Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University Afghanistan Centre at Kabul University 23/01/2018   DS365.G739 1901 3ACKU000505353 23/01/2018 23/01/2018 Monograph The digital file donated from Library of Congress-World Digital Library, PDF is available in ACKU.