Zia al-Mahmoud’s treatise, written by Mahmoud Mirza Qajar, is the first official treatise on cholera and plague after the great scourge of plague in Tehran. This handwritten version was prepared by Shahram Kiani and is decorated with a detailed foreword by him, as well as an introduction by Dr. Touraj Atabaki. For the first time, this book is made available to those interested by the Iran Academia Publishing House. You can order a printed version of this book. The digital version of this book is available for free.
Part of Dr. Touraj Atabaki’s introduction:
The correction and publication of Zia Al-Mahmoud’s treatise by Mahmoud Mirza Qajar, with a comprehensive foreword by Mr. Shahram Kiani, coincided with a global calamity, the spread of the coronavirus, which has engulfed our world in all areas, from industry to commerce, from culture to politics. It has affected our daily life in a significant way. After the Spanish flu, which came to the world more than a hundred years ago and killed more than fifty million people, that too in a short space of less than two years, it became a turning point in the history of global health. Now, the coronavirus is going to repeat itself. Let that calamity sit.
