Tuesday, September 05, 2017
Conversion
Robert Byron (1905-1941), The Road to Oxiana (London: Picador, 1994), p. 174:
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A more humane exponent of English ethics was Archdeacon [James L.] Garland, who lived here [in Isfahan] thirty years. During that time, he used to say, he made one convert. She was an old woman, who was ostracized for her apostasy, so that on her deathbed the Archdeacon was the only friend she could send for. She had one last request, she told him.
'What is it?' asked the Archdeacon, anxious to ease his protégée's last moments.
'Please summon a mullah.'
He did so, and repeated the story afterwards.
