Modern Persian Reader
Modern Persian Reader
A. J. Arberry
March 2015
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9781107492370
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Originally published in 1944, this book contains a selection of passages intended to help a beginner in Persian 'with sufficient reading matter for an intensive course to qualify him for attacking successfully the ordinary newspaper and magazine', as well as for informal conversation. Arberry also intends the book as a brief overview of Persian literature and culture, and supplies notes and vocabulary to go with the sample texts. This book will be of value to anyone with an interest in the history of education and Persian language learning in Britain.
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March 2015Paperback
9781107492370
170 pages
200 × 130 × 10 mm
0.2kg
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Table of Contents
- Preface
- Texts: Proverbs and saws
- Articles of faith and religious practice
- The birth of the prophet
- Abdication of Riza Shah and accession of Muhammad Riza Shah
- Parliamentary report
- Allied air raids on western Europe
- The Shah-nameh of Firdausi
- 'Umar Khaiyam and his message
- On emending the Divan of Hafiz
- Grammatical note
- Sultan Mahmud of Ghazna
- The mosque of Isfahan
- Gog and Magog
- Selected poems
- Notes
- Vocabulary.
