He had also learned a great deal about Persian customs and traditions from his teacher.

From the Historia it is clear that he also knew French and possibly Italian, but there is not enough evidence to determine whether he learned Greek, Persian, and Arabic, as is sometimes claimed.

* Dialogue 7 with a learned Persian – chapters 1 – 18 only.

At the age of fourteen Young had learned Greek and Latin and was acquainted with French, Italian, Hebrew, German, Chaldean, Syriac, Samaritan, Arabic, Persian, Turkish and Amharic.

He was born in Pingree, Idaho and moved to Turkey at age 10, where he lived for six years and learned Greek, Turkish and Persian music.

At the age of sixteen, Alexander joined the army of the East India Company and while serving in India, he learned Hindustani and Persian, and obtained an appointment as interpreter at Surat in 1822.

Jami continues to be known for not only his poetry, but his learned and spiritual traditions of the Persian speaking world.

The Austrian instructors initially knew no Persian, so interpreters had to be employed to assist in the teaching ; but some among them soon learned Persian well enough to compose textbooks in the language on various natural sciences.

According to legend, Christian Rosenkreuz was a doctor who discovered and learned esoteric wisdom on a pilgrimage to the Middle East among Turkish, Arab, and Persian sages, possibly Sufi or Zoroastrian masters, supposedly in the early 15th century ( see section below on Symbolism ); returned and founded the " Fraternity of the Rose Cross " with himself ( Frater C. R. C.

During their investigation, the British Admiralty learned that William Knox D ' Arcy — who later founded the Anglo-Persian Oil Company ( APOC ) in April 1909 — had obtained a valuable concession from the Persian government regarding the oil rights in southern Persia and that D ' Arcy was negotiating a similar concession from the Ottoman Empire for oil rights in Mesopotamia.

He learned to read the Arabic text of the Qur ' an and studied basic Arabic grammar and the Persian language from a teacher named Fazil-e-Illahi.

She later learned Arabic and Persian, and studied history in London.

Ghalib obliged, but what he did produce was a short Persian poem castigating the Ai ’ n-e Akbari, and by implication, the imperial, sumptuous, literate and learned Mughal culture of which it was a product.

Following the Muslim South Asian tradition, his family directed him to study Islamic studies at the local Mosque to be oriented to the basics of religious studies by Maulvi Ibrahim Mir, a tradition was that of Muslim orthodoxy where he memorized Koran and learned Arabic, Persian, Urdu language and the Quran.

He was born while his father was on a tour of the neighbouring state of Assam, spreading God's word. There is a famous saying that a ruler was destined to be born in a land where, intelligent and strong he would lead the Sikhs as a brave warrior and so it was that he was born by the side of the Holy Ganges ( present day Patna Sahib ) where he learned Persian and Sanskrit when he was a child and was also trained to become a warrior.

He later learned several Persian dialects as well as Turkish, Kyrgyz, Mongolian, Tibetan and some Chinese.

Hulagu took with him many Chinese scholars, astronomers, and the famous Persian astronomer Nasir al-Din al-Tusi learned about the mode of the Chinese calculating tables.

Croesus learned of the sudden Persian uprising and defeat of his longtime rivals, the Medes.

That account of the battle is directly contradicted by Diodorus Siculus who states " When Alexander learned of the concentration of the Persian forces, he advanced rapidly and encamped opposite the enemy, so that the Granicus flowed between the encampments.

His father, S. Natha Singh, was a learned scholar of Punjabi, Hindi, Urdu, Persian and English, who initially worked as a District Inspector of Schools but later rose to the rank of a Judge in the High Court of the State of Nabha. he made the akj

For example in the Hellenica Xenophon writes ' When Dercylidas learned this ( that a Persian army was nearby ), he ordered his officers to form their men in line, eight ranks deep ( the hoplite phalanx ), as quickly as possible, and to station the peltasts on either wing along with the cavalry.

From these masters he learned the radif of Persian classical music.

He learned Arabic and Persian in order to study Islamic astronomy.

Apart from Arabic and Persian that he had learned at the Madrasah, he acquired proficiency in English and a smattering of Hebrew.

Often on his way home from school Keith would go to Macari's Music Studio in Ealing Road and would take instruction and practice on the drums there, where he learned his basic drumming skills.

Together with Ivo Fomins and Tomass Kleins, the group is rounded out by bass guitarist Egils Mežs, drummer Valery Inutin and keyboardist Jānis Lūsēns Jr., talented Armenian Nellija Bubujance, who skillfully learned drumming with her teacher, legendary drummer Tālis Gžibovskis ( Eolika, Sīpoli, and others ).

Niyabinghi rhythms were largely a creation of Count Ossie, who incorporated influences from traditional Jamaican Kumina drumming ( especially the form of the drums themselves ) with songs and rhythms learned from the recordings of Nigerian musician Babatunde Olatunji.

Something of this can be learned from `` The Way To The Churchyard '' ( 1901 ), an anecdote about an old failure whose fit of anger at a passing cyclist causes him to die of a stroke or seizure.

It reminded me of my other professor, Edward Kennard Rand, of whom I had been so fond when I was at Harvard, the great mediaevalist and classical scholar who had asked me to call him `` Ken '', saying, `` Age counts for nothing among those who have learned to know life sub specie aeternitatis ''.

From an exercise involving merely raucous, rough-and-tumble comedy, in his hands the performance turned into a revel of wit and word play, indecent at times, but always learned, pointed, and carefully aimed at some individuals present, and at the whole assembly.

Jemela ( surname: Gerby ), 23, seems Hong Kong Oriental but has a Spanish father and an Indian mother, was born in America and educated at Holy Cross Academy and Textile High School, says she learned belly dancing at family picnics.

The Secretary did not tell him at what cost, at what loneliness, he learned these things.

The chief, annoyed by these questions, knocks Voltaire down and shouts at him that he not only never went to any school, but never even learned how to read.

The eight green columns, I learned, came from the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus, the others, red, from the Temple of the Sun at Heliopolis.

Finally, at Ye Olde Gasse Filling Station on Avocado Avenue, they learned that their man, having paused to get oil for his car, had asked about the route to San Diego.

I learned, for example, that he made a practice of yapping at dogs he encountered and, in winter, of sprinkling salt on the icy pavement to scarify their feet.

We had tea at Mr. Washizu's home where I learned that he, too, comes from a very wealthy family.

`` If I thought you were serious about going back to school, that you'd learned something from your experiences here and at Hanover -- well, I might consider such an offer.

During the quarrel I learned what the trouble was, from the accusations each hurled at the other.

Vicky Kowalski meanwhile learned that several of her fellow students had collected almost $25 for her family during the lunch hour yesterday at Fuhrmann Junior High School, 5155 Fourteen Mile road east.

Of the nation's eight million pleasure-boat owners a sizable number have learned that late autumn is one of the loveliest seasons to be afloat -- at least in that broad balmy region that lies below America's belt line.

In later Pahlavi papyri, up to half of the remaining graphic distinctions of these twelve letters were lost, and the script could no longer be read as a sequence of letters at all, but instead each word had to be learned as a whole — that is, they had become logograms as in Egyptian Demotic.

Some alphabets today, such as the Hanuno ' o script, are learned one letter at a time, in no particular order, and are not used for collation where a definite order is required.

He learned the Polish language at home and the Russian language in schools ; and having a French governess and a German governess, he became fluent in these four languages as a child.

Karpov was born on May 23, 1951 at Zlatoust in the Urals region of the former Soviet Union, and learned to play chess at the age of four.

It was necessary that an abbot should be at least 25 years of age, of legitimate birth, a monk of the house, unless it furnished no suitable candidate, when a liberty was allowed of electing from another convent, well instructed himself, and able to instruct others, one also who had learned how to command by having practised obedience.