Talk:Abbas Mirza/Archives/2012/January

Iran/Persia

In the historical context of this article, is it really appropriate to link "Persia" to Iran? It's not as absurd here as in the articles set 2000 years ago, but wasn't the entity of which he was a prince still known at that time unambiguously as Persia? -- Jmabel | Talk 06:59, Apr 16, 2005 (UTC)

Outcome of war

Uncited change to the outcome of a war. Does someone have a citation one way or the other? - Jmabel | Talk 01:52, 4 July 2006 (UTC)

References

The 1911 edition of The New Century Book of Facts published by the King-Richardson Company, Springfield, Massachusetts gives slightly different dates. It has him born in 1783, and gives the dates of the second war with Russia as 1826-1828. All of this is slightly in contradiction to our article, which is cribbed from the 1911 EB. I'm more inclined to believe the EB, but does anyone have independent, trustworthy sources? -- Jmabel 00:06, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC)

I have a 1966 Persian Encyclopedia at the office which should ideally be better than English sources, considering that he was Persian. I will take a look and tell, but please remind me if I forgot. The sad news is that the dates are most possibly in the Islamic calendar, which may be hard to convert for such old times. I have already translated some material about the areas he was forced to give out. Please see Talk:History_of_Azerbaijan#From my Persian Encyclopedia. Roozbeh 00:23, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I'm sure that for many Arab and Persian individuals it is common for Western sources to disagree by a year because all they had to go on was a date from the Islamic calendar and some guesswork. Yet another reason why it's useful to cite sources.

This isn't really an area where I have much to contribute. I've just been looking at the generally decent The New Century Book of Facts and raising some flags where we disagree with its info & don't have clear sourcing. In this case, the birth date is far enough off that it's not just a matter of calendars. -- Jmabel 00:36, Jul 19, 2004 (UTC)

Ok, this is what I found:

• This gives Dhul Hijja, 1203 AH as birth and Jumaada-ul-Akhir, 1249 AH as death. Using this applet [1], the birth should have been from August 23 to September 20, 1789. The death would then be October 16 to November 13, 1833. Both the dates EB gives are in the range.
• As for the Persia-Russia wars, this gives Dhul Hijja, 1241 AH to Sha'aban, 1243 AH. So it is somewhere from July 7 to August 4, 1826 to for the beginning and February 17 to March 16, 1828 as the end. So your new book is correct here.
• For the first Persia-Russia war, this gives 1813, which I also fixed in the article.
• This doesn't give exact dates for the Ottoman war, but mentions that the cholera thing happend early in the war, and it was the Ottomans who offered peace after an unsuccesful attack to Azarbaijan.

Roozbeh 17:21, 19 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Great! Could you explicitly add your Persian Encyclopedia to the article's reference list? Thanks. -- Jmabel 01:09, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

I did something. Does it look all right? Roozbeh 01:50, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)

Great! This kind of reference is very useful, because it let's a reader with a serious scholarly interest (1) evaluate how likely we are to be on the mark and (2) know where to go for further information. -- Jmabel 06:13, Jul 20, 2004 (UTC)

Title of Field Marshal

Reviewed article to C-Class. The title "Field Marshal" has a very specific rank meaning and is normally bestowed on the military leader by the civilian leadership or monarch - it would be good to add who awarded Abbas Mizra the rank and, that this was (I think) the first award of this rank recorded in the Persian Army. Article is looking good! Farawayman (talk) 16:24, 24 January 2012 (UTC)