Editing Abbas Mirza (section)

== Cultural activities ==
Mirza Bozorg probably had a significant impact on Abbas Mirza's formal education, which appears to have been well carefully laid out. Abbas Mirza was familiar with Iranian historians' writings, the ''[[Shahnameh]]'' by [[Ferdowsi]] being his favorite book. Although Tabriz had its own court poets like Sabur of Kashan and Abol-Qasem Forugh, Abbas Mirza was not really interested in poetry. Numerous paintings, including portraits of Napoleon, the Russian emperor, and Sultan Selim III, were used to decorate the palaces in Tabriz and Ujan.{{sfn|Busse|1982|pp=79–84}}

It is conceivable that Abbas Mirza read books written about Europe in [[Ottoman Turkish]] and/or Persian since he could not understand English or any other European language well enough to read in those languages. One of the most recent books about England—the one European nation that seems to have captured Abbas Mirza's attention the most—was the ''Safarnameh'' composed in 1820 by Mirza Saleh Shirazi. It was one of several Persian works on Europe and the West that were available at the time.{{sfn|Shahvar|2020b|pp=127–128}} Despite not understanding English, Abbas Mirza still owned a small collection of English-language literature, including the [[Encyclopaedia Britannica]].{{sfn|Busse|1982|pp=79–84}}