* In the film The Music Man ( based on the 1957 musical ), town librarian Marian Paroo draws down the wrath of the mayor's wife for encouraging the woman's daughter to read a book of " dirty Persian poetry.

* Persian Music Channel, a satellite TV network

Balochi music stems basically from Persian Music due to the close proximity of Iran.

* Bahār Navāi, Simourgh from Shahnameh to Opera, in Persian, Jadid Online, 9 November 2009 • Simorgh Reborn in Music, in English ( an abridged version of the above article ), Jadid Online, 26 November 2009 • An audio slideshow of the composer of the Simourgh Opera, Hamid Motebassem, speaking ( with English subtitles )

* Nay-Nava the Encyclopedia of Persian Music Instruments

See: Music of Iran or Persian Music

There are also many newcomers in Persian / Iranian Music who have made huge impression.

* Grammy Award ( nomination ), Faryad album, Masters of Persian Music.

* During, Jean and Mirabdolbaghi, Zia, " The Art of Persian Music ", Mage Pub ; 1st edition ( Book & CD ) June 1, 1991, ISBN 978-0-934211-22-2

Prof. Shahâb Sarmadî of Aligarh Muslim University, due to his specific expertise in Persian and Indian Classical Music, translated a section called “ Roots and Branches of Music ,” which is a part of Volume II.

* Masters of Persian Music

* Persian Piano Music

* Persian Symphonic Music

* Selected Bibliography of Persian Music ( Iran Heritage Society website, Los Angeles-in English )

" The Dastgah Concept in Persian Music ".

" The History of Persian Music ".

* Persian Traditional Music

* Nay-Nava the Encyclopedia of Persian Music Instruments

* Listen to the Traditional Persian Music Songs

* In the 1962 film version of Meredith Willson's musical The Music Man, Marian Paroo, the librarian, asks the prudish Mrs. Shinn, the mayor's wife, if she would not rather have her daughter reading the classic Persian poetry of Omar Khayyam than Elinor Glyn, to which Mrs. Shinn replies, " What Elinor Glyn reads is her mother's problem!

* Nay-Nava: The Encyclopedia of Persian Music Instruments

He has made numerous recording with prominent musicians including Shajarian, Nazeri, Khaladj, and Gasparyan, and is a member of the Musical group, Masters of Persian Music.

He studied with various masters of Traditional Persian Music such as Houshang Zarif, Ali Akbar Shahnazi, Nur-Ali Borumand, Mahmoud Karimi, Abdollah Davami, Yusef Forutan, and Sa ' id Hormozi.

As early as 1875, he began to work in earnest with a " Persian " palette: dark blue, turquoise, manganese purple, green, Indian red, and lemon yellow, Study of the motifs of what he referred to as " Persian " ware ( and what we know today as fifteenth-and-sixteenth century İznik ware ), profoundly influenced his unmistakable style, in which fantastic creatures entwined with rhythmic geometric motifs float under luminous glazes.

* A Study On Mohammad Daoud Khan ( Negahe ba Shakhsiat, Nazariat wa Siassat ha-ye Sardar Mohammad Daoud ), Mizan Publishing, August 2001, Alexandria-VA, 440 pages in Persian.

* A Critical Study of Futuh-us-Salatin by Aziz Bano, Head of the Persian Department, Moulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad, India

# The Reign of Diocletian and his Three Associates, Maximian, Galerius, and Constantius – General Re-establishment of Order and Tranquility – The Persian War, Victory, and Triumph – The new Form of Administration – The Abdication and Retirement of Diocletian and Maximian

Many instruments ' frets are not spaced according to the semitones of equal temperament, including the Appalachian dulcimer ( with frets in a diatonic scale ), the Turkish Saz ( with frets spaced according to the Makam system of Turkish folk music ), the Arabic Buzuq ( with frets spaced according to the Arabic maqam system ), and the Persian setar and tar ( with frets spaced according to the Persian Dastgah system ), and the Turkish tanbur ( with as many as 5 frets per semitone, to cover all of the commas of the Turkish Makam system ).

Ghazal poems are performed in Uzbek-Tajik Shashmakom, Turkish Makam, Persian Dastgah and Uyghur Muqam.

* Islamopedia Online A growing resource of fatwās issued in English, French, Arabic, Urdu and Persian as well as news articles, editorials & analysis, exhibits and other original content for people interested in learning about Islam.

***** New Persian ( Farsi ; eastern & western dialects )

* Space Science & Technology, ( Persian ) an Iranian nongovernmental group who writes scientific articles about Space Science & Technology

* Ziryab, Persian poet, musician & former slave in Spain

* March 21 – ( Northern hemisphere ) Vernal equinox, also known as Ostara & Persian New Year

* Baba ( nickname ), meaning father in Farsi ( Persian ), Pakistan ( Urdu language ), Indian ( Marathi / Maharastra ), Middle Eastern, Greek, and African cultures & grandmother in Ukrainian, Macedonian, Serbian and other Slavic languages

Commissioned artists include Ken Howard, Linda Kitson, John Keane, Peter Howson, Steve McQueen ( see Queen and Country ) and Langlands & Bell, responding to conflicts in Northern Ireland, the Falklands, the Persian Gulf, Bosnia, Iraq and Afghanistan.

* Persepolisian Letters ( 1798 ) ( fragments on Persian architecture, history & religion )

This fashion was associated with the disposition of the exterior brick and stone work generally into many varieties of pattern, zig-zags, key-patterns & c .; and, as similar decoration is found in many Persian buildings, it is probable that this custom also was derived from the East.

Map showing Greek & Persian advances to Thermopylae and Artemisium

Gilli Danda known by various other names: it is called Tipcat in English, Dandi-Biyo ( डण ् ड ी ब ि य ो) in Nepali, alak-doulak ( الک دولک ) in Persian, dānggűli in Bengali & Assamese, chinni-dandu in Kannada, kuttiyum kolum in Malayalam, viti-dandu व ि ट ् ट ी द ां ड ू in Marathi, kitti-pul ( க ி ட ் ட ி- ப ு ல ்) in Tamil, Gooti-Billa or Karra-Billa or Billam-Godu in Telugu, Gulli-Danda in Punjabi, Geeti Danna () in ( Saraiki, Iti-Dakar ( اٽي ڏڪر ) in Sindhi, Lappa-Duggi ( لپا ڈگی ) in Pashto and Kon ko in khmer, the Cambodian language.

Historically European vermilion included adulterants including brick, orpiment, iron oxide, Persian red, iodine scarlet -- and minium ( red lead ), an inexpensive & bright but fugitive ( cf Pigment # impermanence ) lead-oxide pigment.

Due to the business friendly environment and ease of logistic support, ships trading from Persian gulf anchor here for provisions, bunkers, repair & technical support, spares & stores before proceeding on long voyages.

She went on to guest star on two episodes of NBC shows that were broadcast the same night, March 23, 2006: The " Cowboys and Iranians " episode of the comedy Will & Grace, in which she played a wannabe interior designer who, to the confusion of Grace, is a Persian Jew ; and the " Lost in America " episode of the medical drama ER, playing a bereaved mother who loses her daughter in the trauma room.

* Recipes & descriptions of variety of Persian rice dishes

MAJMA ' UL BAHARAIN or The Mingling Of Two Oceans, by Prince Muhammad Dara Shikuh, Edited in the Original Persian with English Translation, notes & variants by M. Mahfuz-ul-Haq, published by The Asiatic Society, Kolkata, Bibliotheca Indica Series no.

* Asmussen, Jes Peter, comp., Manichaean Literature: Representative Texts, Chiefly from Middle Persian and Parthian Writings, 1975, Scholars ' Facsimiles & Reprints, ISBN 978-0-8201-1141-4.

& Reich, R. ( eds ), The Architecture of Ancient Israel from the Prehistoric to the Persian Periods-in Memory of Immanual ( Munya ) Dunayevsky, Jerusalem: IES, ( 1992 ), pp. 161 – 187.

Also in 2010, he reprised the role of Mr. Tinkles, the evil white Persian cat, in Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore, the sequel to 2001's Cats & Dogs, released on July 30, 2010.

Many Nuristani people now speak other languages, such as Persian and Pashto -- two official languages of Afghanistan & Chitrali in Pakistan.

*" The Word Game Song / Persian on Excursion " ( 1956 Liberty 55016 ; recorded under the name " Alfi & Harry ")