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2 unusual facts about hookah


Durrat Al-Arus

It includes schools, commercial centers, coffee shops, Shisha cafes, hotels, resorts, a golf club, an equestrian club, an aqua park, theme parks, recreation parks and a yacht marina.

Hookah

Iranians had a special tobacco called Khansar (خانسار, presumably name of the origin city, Khvansar).


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Battle of Saraighat

The Mughal admiral Munnawar Khan, smoking a hookah was killed by a gunshot from the back, throwing the Mughals out of gear.

Chitchat on the Nile

It tells the story of a simple Egyptian worker, Anis (played by Emad Hamdi), who cannot tolerate the hypocrisy of the Egyptian government (for whom he works at the Ministry of Health) and the illiteracy of the Egyptian public and decides to hide from all the problems in the country by taking up smoking hashish in a shisha, a popular smoking habit in Egypt, to escape from reality.

Mu‘assel

Initial traces of hookah smoking have been found in the North Western provinces of India in the states of Rajasthan and Gujarat.

According to Cyril Elgood, it was Abu’l-Fatḥ Gīlānī, a Persian physician at the court of the Mughal emperor Akbar I, 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."

Shisha

Mu‘assel, "shisha tobacco" shortened to just "shisha" can, in the West, mean the molasses-based tobacco concoction smoked in a hookah

Tilly Kettle

Kettle moved on to Calcutta (now Kolkata) in 1771 and painted Shuja ud-Daula and Dancing-Girl Holding the Stem of a Hookah. In 1775,he painted George Bogle, Warren Hastings' emissary to Tibet, in Tibetan dress, presenting a ceremonial white scarf to Lobsang Palden Yeshe the 6th Panchen Lama.


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