Mooshie G. Daniel

Born in 1861, he is identified in library and book records as the author of Modern Persia, first published in 1897. The book presents him as a rabbi associated with McCormick Seminary and as a former professor of Ancient Syriac at Oroomiah College in Persia.

In the preface to Modern Persia, he says he had spent four years in America and wrote the book in response to questions he was asked there about Persian society, government, religion, and missionary work. That gives his writing a distinctly personal angle: he was not compiling a distant survey, but answering readers from direct experience.

Reliable biographical details about his later life are limited in the sources I could confirm. What is clear is that his work stands as a rare English-language account of Persia by a writer with roots in the Oroomiah region and ties to the Nestorian Christian community.