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ARTICLES RELATED TO Persian language | | | |  Persian language: Encyclopedia II - Persian language - OrthographyThe vast majority of modern Persian text is written in a form of the Arabic alphabet. In recent years the Latin alphabet has been used by some for technological or internationalization reasons.
Persian language - Arabic Alphabet.
Modern Persian is normally written using a modified variant of the Arabic alphabet.
After the conversion of Persia to Islam (see Islamic conquest of Iran), it took approximately one hundred fifty years before Persians adopted the Arabic alphabet as a replacem ...
See also:Persian language, Persian language - History, Persian language - Nomenclature, Persian language - Dialects and close languages, Persian language - Orthography, Persian language - Arabic Alphabet, Persian language - Latin Alphabet, Persian language - Phonology, Persian language - Grammar, Persian language - Vocabulary Read more here: » Persian language: Encyclopedia II - Persian language - Orthography |
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| | | | Persian language: Encyclopedia II - Persian literature - Classical Persian Literature
Persian literature - Pre-Islamic Iranian Literature.
We have few literary remains from the ancient Persians. Most of these consist of the royal inscriptions of the Achaemenid kings, notably Darius I (522-486 BC) and his son Xerxes.
Although most of the Zoroastrian writings were destroyed in the Islamic conquest of Iran, the Parsees who fled to India took with them some of the books of the Zoroastrian canon, the Zend Avesta.
Some wor ...
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| | | | Persian language: Encyclopedia II - List of Persian poets and authors - 20th century and beyond
List of Persian poets and authors - Prose.
Ali Mohammad Afghani, writer (علی محمد افغانی)
Ahmad-Reza Ahmadi
Mehdi Akhavan-Sales, poet (مهدی اخوان ثالث)
Jalal Al-e-Ahmad (جلال آل احمد)
Ahmad Allahyari, poet , also Journalist
Bozorg Alavi (بزرگ علوی)
Reza Amirkhani
Zhaleh Amouzegar (ژاله آموزگار)
Aref Qazvini (عارف قزوینی)
Mohammad-Taghi Bahar (محم ...
See also:List of Persian poets and authors, List of Persian poets and authors - Before The Islamic conquest of Persia, List of Persian poets and authors - From the Islamic Conquest to the 8th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 9th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 10th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 11th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 12th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 13th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 14th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 15th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 16th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 17th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 18th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 19th century, List of Persian poets and authors - 20th century and beyond, List of Persian poets and authors - Prose, List of Persian poets and authors - Poetry Read more here: » List of Persian poets and authors: Encyclopedia II - List of Persian poets and authors - 20th century and beyond |
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| | | | Persian language: Encyclopedia II - Persian literature - Modern Persian Literature Prof Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub is cosidered as the father of Modern persian literature. He did life-long hard core research on Iranian literature, Literary Criticism and comparative literature.
Literary criticism in Iran started in 19th century after Mirza Fath `Ali Akhundzade, Mirza Malkom Khan, Mirza `Abd al-Rahim Talebof and Zeyn al-`Abedin Maraghe`i.
In 20th century, several prominent academic figures contributed significantly to modern Persian and Iranian literature such as masters Allameh Dehkhoda, Mohammad Moin, Shahrokh Meskoob, Saeed Nafisi, Parviz Nat ...
See also:Persian literature, Persian literature - Pre-Islamic Iranian Literature, Persian literature - Notable forms and genres of Persian literature, Persian literature - Authors and Poets of Persian literature, Persian literature - Important works, Persian literature - Subsequent influences, Persian literature - Modern Persian Literature, Persian literature - Modern Persian Poetry, Persian literature - Modern Persian literature in Afghanistan, Persian literature - Modern Persian literature in Tajikistan, Persian literature - Modern Persian literature in India Pakistan and Kashmir, Persian literature - Persian Novel, Persian literature - Persian short stories, Persian literature - Persian Satirical writings and Comic literature, Persian literature - Traditional satirical literature and poetry, Persian literature - Modern satirical literature and poetry, Persian literature - Persian literary modernism, Persian literature - Modern persian fiction, Persian literature - Post-Modern Persian literature, Persian literature - Translation of Persian literature to other languages, Persian literature - Persian Scientific and Technical language Read more here: » Persian literature: Encyclopedia II - Persian literature - Modern Persian Literature |
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| | | | Persian language: Encyclopedia II - Old Persian language - Script Old Persian was written from left to right in a kind of Cuneiform script. Old Persian cuneiform contains 36 signs which represent consonants, vowels, or sequences of single consonants plus vowels, a set of three numbers (1, 10, 100), one word divider, and eight ideograms. It is essentially alphabetic in nature.
While the letters may look like Sumero-Akkadian cuneiform, only one, L, derives from that script. (L didn't occur in native Old Persian words, but was found in Akkadian borrowings.) Scholars today mostly agree that the Old Persian script was invented by about 525 BC to provide monumental insc ...
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| | | | Persian language: Encyclopedia - Anthony Burgess Anthony Burgess (February 25, 1917 - November 22, 1993) was an English novelist and critic. He was also active as a composer, librettist, poet, playwright, screenwriter, journalist, essayist, travel writer, broadcaster, translator and educationalist. Born John Burgess Wilson in Manchester, England, he lived and worked variously in Southeast Asia, the United States and Mediterranean Europe. His fiction includes the Malayan trilogy (The Long Day Wanes) on the dying days of Britain's empire in the East, the Enderby cycle of comic ...
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