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This is the first comprehensive reference grammar of Tajik, the Persian of Central Asia, to appear in English. It describes the modern literary language, with examples of colloquial and dialect usage, from the early Soviet period (1920s) up until Tajikistan's independence after …
"This is the first comprehensive reference grammar of Tajik, the Persian of Central Asia, to appear in English. It describes the modern literary language, with examples of colloquial and dialect usage, from the early Soviet period (1920s) up until Tajikistan's independence after…
Abū l-Fatḥ Khān Zand (1169–1201/1755 or 1756–87), the eldest surviving son of Karīm Khān Zand (r. c.1164-93/1751–79), briefly succeeded his father as nominal ruler of Iran for seventy days in 1193/1779. His father had been the leader of his tribal contingent in the army of Nād…
Persian lexicography has been influenced by languages which include Pahlavi and Arabic and trends which include widespread use of Persian in India and a modern puristic language movement. Persian dictionaries and glossaries have developed since the fourth/tenth century and have …
Portrait of Āghā Muḥammad Qājār from John Malcolm, A History of Persia , 1815. Āghā Muḥammad Khān (Shāh) Qājār (r. 1203–11/1789–97; Illustration 1) was the founder of the Qājār dynasty of Iran. Born about 1155/1742, at Dāmghān, he was the eldest son of Muḥammad Ḥasan Khān (d. 11…
ʿAbd al-Rashīd b. Sayyid ʿAbd al-Ghafūr al-Ḥusaynī al-Madanī al-Tattawī was an Indian grammarian and lexicographer of Persian of the eleventh/seventeenth century. He was born of a Medinan Sayyid lineage in Sind, at Tatta on the Indus (now in Pakistan), probably toward the end of…
Mīrzā ʿAlī-Akbar Dihkhudā (b. 1879, Tehran; d. 1956, Tehran) was a scholar, journalist, and politician during Iran’s Constitutional Revolution (1905–11), which led to the establishment of a parliament in Iran under the Qājār dynasty (r. 1210–1344/1795–1925). Dihkhudā came from a…