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Автор: Jesse Russell
Год: 2013
Издание:
Книга по Требованию
Страниц: 137
ISBN: 9785509307867
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! A hookah (hukka or huqqah) also known as a waterpipe,arghile, or qalyan is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for smoking flavored tobacco called Mu‘assel in which the smoke is passed through a water basin (often glass based) before inhalation. The origin of the hookah is in India and Persia, or at a transition point between the two. The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", which is what the Indians used to call it. According to author Cyril Elgood (pp. 41, 110), who does not mention his source, it was Abul-Fath Gilani (d. 1588), a Persian physician at the Indian court of the Mughal emperor Akbar, who "first passed the smoke of tobacco through a small bowl of water to purify and cool the smoke and thus invented the hubble-bubble or hookah." Nevertheless, a quatrain of Ahli Shirazi (d. 1535) refers to the use of the ?alyan in Safavid Iran. (Falsafi, II, p. 277; Semsar, 1963, p. 15). Smoking the hookah has gained popularity outside of its...
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