Mit Beiträgen von:Bosorg Alawi, Muhammad Asad, Manutschehr Ateschi, Theodor Bauer, Gertrude Bell, Nicolas Bouvier, Houchang Chehabi, Rudolph Chimelli, Mahmud Doulatabadi, Assghar Elahi, Engu, Galal Pur-e Fath-Ali-Schah, Johann Wolfgang Goethe, Noah Gordon, Hafis alias Schams od-Din Mohammed, Joseph Freiherr von Hammer-Purgstall, Ssadegh Hedajat, Riza-Quli-Han-Hidayat, Arnold Hottinger, Karl Lebrecht Immermann, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Dzevad Karahasan, Navid Kermani, Victor Kocher, Pierre Loti, Abba ...