For instance, Tachara Palace is among the reliable sources when it comes to the history of Persian writing. The gorgeous ruins bear noteworthy inscriptions and bas-relief carvings. As mentioned by ...

“Persian contemporary poetry is rendered into Cyrillic via the Tajik multimedia and Tajik people are quite familiar with it, but this does not cover other regions in the Middle East,” he told the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract The German Turfan collection includes fragments of two Early New Persian manuscripts in Syriac script, a bilingual (Syriac and New Persian) ...

Following an agreement signed between the Iranian Cultural House in Tajikistan and the state TV Channel 1, a 12-hour program, teaching the Persian alphabet is being broadcast on TV, said Iran ’s ...

A rare version of Guru Granth Sahib written in Persian has been presented by eminent Sikh scholar Jasbir Singh Sabar to vice-chancellor of Sri Guru Granth Sahib World University Gurmohan Singh. A rare ...

This introductory workshop led by calligraphy artists Laleh Rasaee and Farhad Vatandoost will focus on Nastaliq, an 800-year-old Persian script known for its legendary character and eternal beauty.

One of the many works of Persian calligraphy on display at the Freer Sackler Gallery. There are many who see the foreign symbols of the Arabic alphabet as art themselves, in contrast to the bland ...

As an advanced research student of classical and Semitic languages and cultures, the fact that Persian has almost become a defunct language in India came as a sad realisation for me. Now it is quite ...