On March 4, 1847, the French ambassador wrote home stating that the governor of isfahan had died, leaving a fortune of 40 million francs.
"The Reconciliation of Races and Religions"
Thomas Kelly Cheyne
Thus, for instance, Yakubi indicates that the inhabitants of isfahan, Merv, and Herat, consisted mainly of high-born Dehkans.
"Iranian Influence on Moslem Literature, Part I"
M. Inostranzev
335 Abu Shuja'a of isfahan, his theological work, i.
"Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah & Meccah"
Sir Richard Francis Burton