The Pursuit of Pleasure: Drugs and Stimulants in Iranian History, 1500-1900

by RudiMatthee (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $53.75

  From ancient times to the present day, Iranian social, political, and economic life has been dramatically influenced by psychoactive agents. This book looks at the stimulants that, as put by a longtime resident of seventeenth-century Iran, Raphael du Mans, provided Iranians with damagh, gave them a 'kick', got them into a good mood.