Language and Literature
Understanding the language and the literature of a people can help you understand who they are.
Free Internet Resources:
"Afghanistan – People - Languages." Encyclopædia Britannica. 2006. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service. Accessed 29 June 2006 http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-226122.
Languages Spoken in Afghanistan." Afghanistan Online 28 June 2006 http://www.afghan-web.com/language/
Books:
Aryanpur Kashani, Abbas, and Manoochehr Aryanpur. Farhang-i Nuvin-i Payvastah-i Farsi-Ingilisi Va Ingilisi-Farsi. [The combined new Persian-English and English-Persian dictionary]. Lexington, KY: Mazdâ Publishers, 1986. Call number: PK6379 .A694 1986
Bashiri, Iraj. Persian for Beginners. 3rd. ed. Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1981. Call number: PK6235 .B33 1981
Davidson, Olga M. Poet and Hero in the Persian Book of Kings. Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1994. Call number: PK6459 .D38 1994
Dole, Nathan Haskell, et al. Flowers from Persian Poets. New York: Crowell, 1901. Call number: PK6449.E5 D7
Emadi, Hafizullah. Culture and Customs of Afghanistan. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood,
2005.Call number: DS351.5 .E53 2005
Firdawsi, and Alexander Rogers, trans. The Shah-Namah of Fardusi. Delhi: Heritage, 1973. Call number: PK6456 .A1 R7 1973
Firdawsi, and Jerome W. Clinton, trans. The Tragedy of Sohráb and Rostám: From the Persian National Epic, the Shahname of Abol-Qasem Ferdowsi. Seattle: U of Washington P, 1987. Call number: PK6456.A12 R82 1987
Firdawsi, and Dick Davis, trans. Shahnameh: The Persian Book of Kings. New York: Viking, 2006. On Order
Gilani, Dariush. An English-Persian Dictionary. Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 1999. Call number: PK6379 .G55 1999
Hasan, Hadi. A Golden Treasury of Persian Poetry. Delhi: Publications Division, Ministry of Information and Broadcasting, Govt. of India, 1966. Call number: PK6449 .E5 H3
Jackson, A. V. Williams. Early Persian Poetry: From the Beginnings Down to the Time of Firdausi, with Ten Illustrations. New York: Macmillan, c1920; AMS, 1975. Call number: PK6433 .J3
Parviz Natil. A History of the Persian Language. New Delhi: Sterling, 1979. Call number: PK6225 .K513
Mace, John. Persian Grammar: For Reference and Revision. London: RoutledgeCurzon, 2003. Call number: PK6239.5.E5 M335 2003
Paul, Stephens C. The New Royal Persian-English Dictionary. 3d ed. Allahabad: R. N. Lal, 1963. Call number: PK6379.P35 1963
Potter, Murray Anthony. Sohrab and Rustem, the Epic Theme of a Combat between Father and Son; a Study of its Genesis and use in Literature and Popular Tradition. London: D. Nutt, 1902. Call number: PN57.S6 P6
Raverty, H. G. A Grammar of the Pu?hto, Pu_shto, Or, Language of the Af_ghans: In which the Rules are Illustrated by Examples from the Best Writers, both Poetical and Prose, Together with Translations from the Articles of War, and Remarks on the Language, Literature, and Descent of the Af_ghan Tribes. 2nd ed. New Delhi: Asian Educational Services, 1987. Call number: PK6721 .R3 1987
Saberi, Reza. A Thousand Years of Persian Rubáiyát: An Anthology of Quatrains from the Tenth to the Twentieth Century Along with the Original Persian. Bethesda, MD: Ibex, 2000. Call number: PK6449.E5 S2213 2000
Audio:
Amuzegar, Hooshang, and Farideh Amuzegar. How to Speak, Read, & Write Persian. Bethesda, MD: Ibex Publishers, 2003. Call number: Sound Recording 9087
Thackston, W. M. An Introduction to Persian. Rev. 3rd ed. Bethesda, MD: Iranbooks, 1993. Call number: PK6235 .T47 1993, Sound Recording 9088
Topics Entertainment. 33 Languages. CD 7. Farsi (Persian). Renton, WA: TOPICS Entertainment, 2003.Call number: Computer File CD 438
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