A Travelogue of al-Atabat al-‘Aliyat (Sublime Thresholds of Ahlulbayt) and India / by Mohammad-Hossein Qarib Garekani

The author begins his article with the biography of the travel writer, Mirza Mohammad-Hossein Qarib Garekani (d. 1345 A.H.), who was a 14th-century scholar. In addition to religious sciences, he also was good at literature, art, and judgment. After studying in Qom and Najaf, he spent ten years in India. His works are in the field of Persian and Arabic literature, imamate, jurisprudence and methodology of jurisprudence. His contemporary scholars such as Ebrat Na’ini, Mahmoud Hedayat, Naeb al-Sadr and Sadr al-Islam Khoei praised him for his merits and knowledge. Related to 1304 A.H., this travelogue describes the cities and houses along the way and their characteristics, the people’s lifestyle and clothing, the natural and environmental situations and the industrial factories of these cities. The author has identified the unique manuscript of this treatise and mentions two vows of the author had made in 1304 A.H. for Imam Hussain (Salam be upon him).