- Judeo-Iranian Languages and Their Importance in Reconstructing the Extinct Vernacular Languages of the Region’ at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
- Frau • Leben • Freiheit
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n the Early New Persian literary tradition, especially during the Ghaznavid period (11th c. CE), feasting and fighting (bazm-u razm)Continue reading “The Hunt as Erotic and Military Training in Early New Persian Poetry” - گفتاری در مورد نام ایران به عنوان یک واحد سیاسی و تاریخ آن
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Apr 12 – Apr 14 314 Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson PlazaLos Angeles, CA 90095 United States + Google Map Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in theContinue reading “AchWorks 1 – Identity, Alterity, and the Imperial Impress in the Achaemenid World” - Workshop der altpersischen Keilschrift und Geschichte der alten Sprachen des Iran
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Pahlavica & Avestica
Weekly lessons on Shahname
Old Persian-Elamite contacts
Iranian languages
Persian Language
Pre-Islamic religions of Iran
India and Iran
Iran and Caucasus
Helenstik Iran
Iran and the advent of Islam
Epigraphy
Poet of the week
Nizami Ganjavi
He was a 12th-century Persian Sunni Muslim poet. Nezāmi is considered the greatest romantic epic poet in Persian literature, who brought a colloquial and realistic style to the Persian epic.His heritage is widely appreciated and shared by Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, the Kurdistan region and Tajikistan.
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Etymology of the week:
pan.ǰa.ra ‘window’
Tehrani Persian pan.ǰe.re
It is an Indian loanword in Iranian languages. It is comparable with Sanskrit pañjara-. The Old Iranian word for ‘window’ is Old Persian ardastāna- which is attested in Old Persian inscriptions of Persepolis.
Story of the week
The caravan of Islam or
the Islamic mission to the French country
by Sadegh Hedayat
The work deals with the story and ups and downs of the journey of several preachers of Islam to Europe with a satirical approach.
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Persian poem of the week
اگر نیست ایدر فراوان درنگ
همه نام بهتر که ماند نه ننگ
مرا مرگ بهتر از آن زندگی
که سالار باشم کنم بندگی
By Ferdowsi
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