Antique Hookahs
A hookah also known as the ḡalyān is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for smoking tobacco .
There are two theories regarding the origin of the hookah. The first is that following the introduction of tobacco to India by the Jesuits, the waterpipe was invented by one of Akbar's physicians, Abu’l-Fath Gilani, in the Indian city of Fatehpur Sikri. The hookah spread from India to the Near East, where the mechanism was modified. Alternatively, it could originate in Safavid dynasty of Persia from where it eventually spread to the east into the Indian subcontinent during that time.
Antique Hookahs
A hookah also known as the ḡalyān is a single or multi-stemmed instrument for smoking tobacco .
There are two theories regarding the origin of the hookah. The first is that following the introduction of tobacco to India by the Jesuits, the waterpipe was invented by one of Akbar's physicians, Abu’l-Fath Gilani, in the Indian city of Fatehpur Sikri. The hookah spread from India to the Near East, where the mechanism was modified. Alternatively, it could originate in Safavid dynasty of Persia from where it eventually spread to the east into the Indian subcontinent during that time.