Letters from Abbas Iqbal-Ashtiani to Ja’far Sultan-al-Qarra'i

Ja’far Sultan-al-Qarra'i, a prominent contemporary scholar and professor of history, science of narrators and genealogy, was one of the most skilled experts in the field of codicology and study of historical and artistic documents and papers, and was therefore friends with many great figures of culture and literature. A number of these great figures, such as Hajj Mohammad-Agha Nakhjivani, Professor Iraj Afshar, Hajj Ismail-Agha Amirkhizi, Dr. Ali-Naqi Munzavi, and Professor Seyyed-Hasan Qazi-Tabatab'i, have written several letters to Professor Sultan-al-Qarra'i, some of which have been published in various issues of Payam Baharestan quarterly. The present article is a rewritten text of eight letters from Professor Abbas Iqbal-Ashtiani to him.