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Researches and Missionary Labours among the Jews, Mohammedans, and Other Sects
Joseph Wolff
Joseph Wolff’s journal of his travels between 1831 and 1834 through Persia, Bokhara, Afghanistan and India. It records his conversations and correspondence with Jews and Muslims, including his expectation of Christ’s coming in 1847.
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A Lucknow mujtahid disputes Wolff’s 1847 · commentary →
A Lucknow mujtahid disputes Wolff’s 1847 · commentary →
Edition and location
Joseph Wolff, Researches and Missionary Labours among the Jews, Mohammedans, and Other Sects (London: published by the author, sold by J. Nisbet, 1835). Internet Archive scan researchesmissio00wolfrich (University of California copy), page images inspected: p. 188 (running head “Bokhara.—1832”), dialogue lines from “G. B. Do you believe in Jesus?” through “I. In Daniel vii. 5.”; pp. 396–397 (running head “Kingdom of Oude.—1833”), the letter of Emeer Sayd Ahmed from “I have received your second epistle” through “which suits his own purpose.” Speaker labels (“G. B.” for Goosh-Bekee, “I.” for Wolff) are italic in print and rendered plain; spaces before question marks, semicolons and colons closed; the letter’s opening quotation mark removed because the selection ends inside the quoted letter; line-end hyphenation joined; whitespace normalized.
pp. 188; 396–397