War and Peace in Qajar Persia: Implications Past and ... - Oguzlar.az

198 Ali GheissariFigure 8.4Front row,Seated, first from left: Mirza Ali Theqat al-Eslam (with white turban);Seated, in the middle: Aqa Seyyed Mir-Mohammad Jourabchian-HaqqiSecond row,Seated, second from left: probably Abu al-Hasan HarandiSeated, third from left: probably Mohammad-Hossein PartoviStanding,First from right: Hajj Naqi JourabchiSecond from right (standing behind, between columns): Hajj Reza JourabchiThird from right: Esma’il PartoviStanding, back row, from left:1. Mohammad Reshad; 3. Hajj Hasan Harandi; 4. Ahmad Reshad; 5. AbbasJourabchi; 6. probably Gholam-Reza (Harandian?); 7. Ali-Asghar Partovi;8. Gholam-Hossein Jourabchiabout the broader financial anxieties of Iranian merchants at large and theircommercial networks. Hajj Mohammad-Taqi focuses more on his personalconcerns about trade, while also providing details of his travels, which attimes were a combination of business and pilgrimage. The author narrateshis passion for auditing lessons given by the more commendable among theulama whenever he was on pilgrimage or engaged in trade in various pilgrimagecentres. His very private pursuit of intellectual/spiritual matters isan important dimension of the Memoirs.Some merchants chose to support the royal autocracy during the Revolution,either for personal economic reasons, or because of their particularsense of religious devotion which compelled them to follow the directives of