From Basra to Isfahan is 1100 km . Isfahan is a town situated on savanna. It has mild climate and whenever you dig a 10m well, refreshing and cold water comes out. The city has a strong high wall and gate and also Battle grounds which were made on it and the crenations are on all edges of lamparts. In the city streams of water are flowing. Constructions of the city are nice and high. Adineh Masque is in the middle of the city which is very big and beautiful. Inside the city is well-organized and well-regulated and I didn`t see any breakdown in it. It had many markets .
I saw a changer`s market with two hundreds changer mans. Each market had strong gates and passes. They had clean Caravan Serais. There were an alley which was called :Koo Taraz”. It had 50 good caravan serais that in each one were many chamber mates. The caravan that we travelled with them had one thousand three hundred kharvar loads, but when we arrived there no one came to visit us for asking about why and how did we get into the city because the city was very big there weren`t lack of place and forage. When Sultan Tughrol Beik Abu Tabib Mohammad Inbn Mikail Ibn Saljugh (peace be upon him) had occupied the city, he had appointed a young man from Neyshabur as its governor.
A man of letters with a fine handwriting, a composed , good-looking man named Khaje Amid. He was fond of knowledge , eloquent and generous. The Sultan had ordered him not to exact any taxes from people, which he had abided by and all of those who had once migrated elsewhere had now returned to the city. This man was one of the lettered man of shoor. Before we got there , they had experienced a great famine. But when we arrived in the city, they were harvesting barely, and you could get 4.5 kg of wheat bread plus 9 kg of barley bread for a single dirham adl. The people there, said that there had never been a time when you had to pay more than a dirham for 24 kg of bread and in fact , that was the least amount of bread you could get for a single dirham.
And I didn`t see a city more beautiful , more comprehensive and also more developed than Isfahan in the entire land of Persia. They said if you kept wheat, barley and other grains even for 20 years, they wouldn`t decay, and they would hardly go rotten. The village were still the way they were before. Because the caravan set off with delay, I stayed in Isfahan for 20 days.
Name Abu Moein Naser Bin Khosrow Bin Hareth Ghobadiani Balkhi
Nickname Naser Khosrow
Titles Hojjat, Seyed Shah Naser Khosrow, Master of the Mountains
Professions Poet, Philosopher, Hakim (Medicine Man) and Globe Trotter
Most Popular Books Travelogue, Vajh-e Din/Lifetime From 1004 thru 1089
Place of Birth Ghobadian-e Balkh
Place of Death Yamghan Badkhshan
Tomb Afghanistan
Name Naser Khosrow’s Travelogue
Author Naser Khosrow Ghobadiani
Subject Report of 7-year Travel to Iran
Publication Date 1881 Travel
Date From 1046 thru 1053
