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History Of Hookah
A hookah (Persian: قلیان Urdu: حقّہ (Nastaleeq), IPA: [ˌɦʊqqaː] is a single- or multi-stemmed instrument for vaporizing and smoking flavored tobacco (called Mu‘assel), or sometimes cannabis, whose vapor or smoke is passed through a water basin—often glass-based—before inhalation.
The waterpipe was invented by Safavid dynasty of Persia from where it eventually spread to the east into South Asia during that time. The hookah ( Qelyan ) or Argyleh soon reached Egypt and the Levant during the Ottoman dynasty from neighbouring Safavid dynasty, where it became very popular and where the mechanism was later perfected.
The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", a Urdu term, Outside its native region, hookah smoking has gained popularity throughout the world, especially among younger people. ( according to Wikipedia )
Karim khan Zand King of Persia in 1755
In Persia, hookah is called "Qalyān" (قلیان). Persian qalyan is included in the earliest European compendium on tobacco, the tobacolgia written by Johan Neander and published in Dutch in 1622. It seems that over time water pipes acquired a Persian connotation as in eighteenth-century Egypt the most fashionable pipes were called Karim Khan after the Persian ruler of the day.This is also the name used in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.
The waterpipe was invented by Safavid dynasty of Persia from where it eventually spread to the east into South Asia during that time. The hookah ( Qelyan ) or Argyleh soon reached Egypt and the Levant during the Ottoman dynasty from neighbouring Safavid dynasty, where it became very popular and where the mechanism was later perfected.
The word hookah is a derivative of "huqqa", a Urdu term, Outside its native region, hookah smoking has gained popularity throughout the world, especially among younger people. ( according to Wikipedia )
Karim khan Zand King of Persia in 1755
In Persia, hookah is called "Qalyān" (قلیان). Persian qalyan is included in the earliest European compendium on tobacco, the tobacolgia written by Johan Neander and published in Dutch in 1622. It seems that over time water pipes acquired a Persian connotation as in eighteenth-century Egypt the most fashionable pipes were called Karim Khan after the Persian ruler of the day.This is also the name used in Ukraine, Russia and Belarus.