Search results for "Persian language" - New World Encyclopedia

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  • Aristotelianism has made an indelible contribution to the language ... The Persian philosopher Avicenna (980-1032 C.E.) synthesized the theories ...
    18 KB (2,450 words) - 06:29, 12 August 2023
  • has been immensely influential on the language, politics, educational systems ... ==The Persian Wars== In Ionia (the modern Aegean coast of Turkey), ...
    48 KB (7,639 words) - 12:24, 14 October 2023
  • part of the region's traditional music. In Persian and Azeri classical music, singers frequently use tahrir, a yodeling technique that oscillates ...
    12 KB (1,787 words) - 00:48, 17 April 2023
  • honored throughout the Babylonian and later Persian empires for several more centuries as a member of the great, if far away, triad of deities together ...
    12 KB (1,974 words) - 18:55, 13 February 2024
  • measuring 58 km (36 mi) on the northern Persian Gulf. The capital city, ... narrow section of coastline at Umm Qasr on the Persian Gulf. ...
    56 KB (8,476 words) - 13:04, 6 March 2024
  • 1858 – October 1, 1898) was a Gujarati-language writer, philosopher, and ... of ghazals, a form of ode, in the style of Persian Sufis. Despite flaws of ...
    44 KB (6,296 words) - 21:42, 30 October 2023
  • The name "Pakistan" in the Urdu and Persian languages means ... Nearly all of ancient Pakistan was conquered by the Persian Achaemenid ...
    40 KB (5,985 words) - 19:54, 7 March 2024
  • During Ashurbanipal's first years the Persian province of Elam was still in peace, as it had been under his father. Around 664, however ...
    17 KB (2,527 words) - 22:19, 8 November 2021
  • the Red Sea, and across the desert to the Persian Gulf. The latitude is 30° ... such as an invasion by the neo-Persian power under the Sassanid ...
    24 KB (3,829 words) - 14:47, 28 March 2023
  • throughout the region stretching from the Persian Gulf to North Africa's ... They speak Soqotri, an unwritten Semitic language related to other Modern ...
    22 KB (3,173 words) - 21:53, 30 January 2023
  • and that the style and language found in Obadiah is very similar to ... * Koch, Klaus. The Prophets: The Babylonian and Persian Periods. Philidelphia: ...
    15 KB (2,366 words) - 00:28, 19 November 2023
  • #039;s manifestation, abstracting him in language that human beings can comprehend ... varied; its diversity of color, gender, language, culture and style are seen ...
    50 KB (7,571 words) - 05:42, 26 August 2023
  • September 23, 480 B.C.E.; the day of the Persian War's greatest naval ... the king truly has broken his vows. The language used by Heracles and Admetus ...
    22 KB (3,638 words) - 04:28, 23 March 2024
  • Scandinavian languages and the Chinese language uses the term "breath ... In this case, the “prince of the Persian kingdom” was referring ...
    17 KB (2,627 words) - 21:55, 28 October 2020
  • Tripitaka scriptures, and in some English-language fiction he is addressed ... Samarkand. In Samarkand, which was under Persian influence, the party came ...
    21 KB (3,157 words) - 14:33, 20 May 2023
  • the sixteenth century from the French language, either from the word for ... I Shah Husein Mosque of Isfahan. The Persian style and use of turquoise ...
    35 KB (5,240 words) - 00:26, 3 May 2023
  • Some scholars have suggested that the eleventh century Persian story ... of the Tristan story in a Slavic language. Lacy (1991), 106-08. ...
    29 KB (4,638 words) - 17:43, 2 May 2023
  • 1920s, Abul A’la knew enough Arabic, Persian and English, besides his ... translated into English, Arabic, Turkish, Persian, French, German, Swahili ...
    26 KB (4,137 words) - 17:08, 23 December 2022
  • day Pakistan), including Taxila, to the Persian Achaemenid Empire. ... to Greek influences in this area. The language used in the area is bilingual ...
    18 KB (2,588 words) - 00:48, 21 April 2023
  • on the face of it, adapted from Ahasuerus, the Persian king in Esther, who is not a Jew, and whose very name among medieval Jews was an exemplum of a fool. ...
    18 KB (2,872 words) - 22:50, 3 May 2023

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