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Beginners' Guide to Tajikiby Azim Baizoyev; John Hayward; E. Rahmonov
RoutledgeCurzon 2003; US$ 59.95This is a conversational approach to the teaching and learning of Tajiki. It uses authentic language material to help learners proceed through its topic-based lessons. Its emphasis on the spoken language promotes oral fluency alongside written more...
Modern Persian: A Course-Bookby Simin Abrahams
RoutledgeCurzon 2004; US$ 49.95This course assumes no prior knowledge of the language and begins with the teaching of the Persian alphabet. Grammar and vocabulary are covered in full and the course places equal emphasis on reading, writing and speaking. more...
Islamic Dramaby Jamshid Malekpour
Frank Cass 2004; US$ 57.95This work examines the evolution of the Ta'ziyeh, which involved elements drawn from Zoroastrianaism, Mithraism, mythology, folklore and traditional forms of Iranian entertainment. more...
The virgin and her loverby B. Utas; T. H?
BRILL 2003; US$ 138.00Starting from the author's discovery that the Persian epic poem Vamiq and Adhra by Unsuri (11th century AD) derives from the ancient Greek novel of "Metiokhos and Parthenope", this work contains critical editions of the Greek and Persian fragments and testimonia, with comments. more...
The Case of Rhyme versus Reasonby Robert C. McKinney
BRILL 2004; US$ 249.00This book examines the life and times and poetry of the extremely prolific and versatile ?Abbasid poet Ibn al-Rumi (d. 283/896). Particular attention is devoted to tracing the influences in his distinctive poetic style and themes. more...
A Minimalist Approach to Scramblingby Simin Karimi
Walter de Gruyter, Inc. 2005; US$ 123.20This study addresses the problems scrambling langauges provide for the existing syntactic theories by analyzing the interaction of semantic and discourse functional factors with syntactic properties of word order in this type of languages, and by discussing the implications of this interaction for Universal Grammar. Three interrelated goals are carefully followed in this work. The first is to analyze the syntactic structure of Persian, a language which exhibits free word order. With this analysis, the author has accounted for the relative order of categorized expressions, the motivation for their possible rearrangements, and the grammatical results of those reorderings. In this respect, a broad range of major syntactic phenomena, including... more...
The Giftby Hafiz; Daniel Ladinsky
Penguin Group Inc. 1999; US$ 14.99More than any other Persian poet--even Rumi--Hafiz expanded the mystical, healing dimensions of poetry. Because his poems were often ecstatic love songs from God to his beloved world, many have called Hafiz the "Invisible Tongue." Indeed, Daniel Ladinsky, the accomplished translator of this volume, has said that his work with Hafiz is an attempt to do the impossible: to translate Light into words--to make the Luminous Resonance of God tangible to our finite senses. I am a hole in a flute that the Christ's breath moves through-- listen to this music! With this stunning collection of 250 of Hafiz's most intimate poems, Ladinsky has succeeded brilliantly in translating the essence of one of Islam's greatest poetic and religious voices. Each... more...
Your First 100 Words in Pashtoby Jane Wightwick
McGraw-Hill 2003; US$ 14.00YOUR FIRST 100 WORDS IN . . . PASHTO. A paperback original. Takes the intimidation out of learning a new language. In the Your First 100 Words In series, readers are shown how to decipher and read a new script by learning 100 primary words in a new language. Covering the languages of Iran and Afghanistan, this new addition to the Your First 100 Words In series can be used by students as a supplement for their language courses, by parents as an introduction for young children, or by learners independently. more...
Sadeq Hedayatby Homa Katouzian
Taylor & Francis 2007; US$ 160.00This edited collection brings together the foremost authorities on Sadeq Hedayat's work. more...
Modern Persian Literature in Afghanistanby Wali Ahmadi
Taylor & Francis 2008; US$ 140.00This book charts the development of Afghan literature in the modern era, covering both poetry and prose, and relating it to social, economic and political change in that country. more...