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The Persian portion of Louvre contains work from the archaic period, like the Funerary Head and the Persian Archers of Darius I.
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Kenneth Kitchen, Louis F. Hartman and Alexander Di Lella, for example, date the Aramaic portion more broadly within the Persian period ( i. e., before the 330s BC ), as based on Persian loanwords.
These fault lines are believed to be the northern and final portion of the Great Rift and are presumed to be the result of the slow rotation of the Arabian Peninsula counterclockwise in a way that will, in approximately 10 million years, close off the Persian Gulf and make it a lake.
Syria received significant financial aid from Persian Gulf Arab states as a result of its participation in the Persian Gulf War, with a sizable portion of these funds earmarked for military spending.
He began to transcribe the Old Persian portion of the trilingual inscriptions in Old Persian, Elamite and Babylonian ( a later form of Akkadian ) written by Darius the Great sometime between his coronation as king of the Persian Empire in the summer of 522 BC and his death in autumn of 486 BC.
Artabazus, however, managed to lead the remnant portion of a greatly reduced Persian army out of Greece and back to Ionia.
The Western Indo-Pacific covers the western and central portion of the Indian Ocean, including the Africa's east coast, the Red Sea, Gulf of Aden, Persian Gulf, Arabian Sea, Bay of Bengal, and Andaman Sea, as well as the coastal waters surrounding Madagascar, the Seychelles, Comoros, Mascarene Islands, Maldives, and Chagos Archipelago.
In essence the concession not only violated the long-established relationship between Persian tobacco producers and tobacco sellers, but it also threatened the job security of a significant portion of the population.
A large portion of the Persian army was trapped in its camp and slaughtered.
A portion of these Gnostic teachings, or what the church fathers maintain Mani received from Terebinthus, or, " Buddas " during the time of the Apostles, when combined with Persian and old Babylonian mythology, furnished Mani with his particular doctrine of the original man.
At Surat he acquired, by perseverance and address in his discussions with Parsi theologians, a sufficient knowledge of ancient Persian ( Avestan, which Anquetil-Duperron mistakenly called Zend ) and middle Persian languages to translate the portion of the Zoroastrian texts called the Vendidad ( or Vendidad Vide ) and some other works.
Naram-Sin traded with Meluhha ( possibly corresponding to the Indus Valley civilization ), and controlled a large portion of land along the Persian Gulf.
The lower-aristocratic portion Sassanid Persian society was dominated by the Azatan, who guarded their status as descendants of ancient Aryan conquerors.
( which only refers to a region in the southwest portion ) or Arabistan, although some define Arabistan as also including territory along the Persian Gulf coast to the Strait of Hormuz.
However, still a large portion of current Turkish words have Arabic or Persian origins.
Persian and Louvre
File: Mantes carpet Louvre OA6610 detail1. jpg | Detail of 16th century Persian carpet
* Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre ( Shush dar dāman-e Louvre ), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009, Jadidonline. com. Audio slideshow: Jadidonline. com ( 6 min 31 sec ).
* Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre ( Shush dar dāman-e Louvre ), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009,. Audio slideshow: ( 6 min 31 sec ).
* Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre ( Shush dar dāman-e Louvre ), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009,. Audio slideshow: ( 6 min 31 sec ).
* Hamid-Reza Hosseini, Shush at the foot of Louvre ( Shush dar dāman-e Louvre ), in Persian, Jadid Online, 10 March 2009,. Audio slideshow: ( 6 min 31 sec ).
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As noted by biblical scholar Michael D. Coogan, the book of Esther contains specific details regarding certain subject matter ( for example, Persian rule ) which are historically inaccurate.
For example, the book contains several Aramaic and two Persian words.
The inscription on his tomb contains Persian words penned which state: اگرفردوس روی زمین است همین است و همین است و همین است ( If there is a paradise on earth, it is this, it is this, it is this!
The collection contains three pages of the Shahnameh, an epic book of poems by Ferdowsi in Persian, and a Syrian metalwork named the Barberini Vase.
* The Persian Poet, contains the translations by Edward FitzGerald and a biography.
Saudi Arabian Oil Company ( Saudi Aramco ) technicians have determined that very deep aquifers lie in many areas of northern and eastern Arabia and that the Wasia, the largest aquifer in Saudi Arabia, contains more water than the Persian Gulf.
It contains loan words from languages with which Hebrew had contact in post-exilic times, such as Persian, Greek, and Aramaic, and contains numerous items of vocabulary that are otherwise unknown in Biblical Hebrew but are known from Rabbinic Hebrew, and these expressions give the impression of being part of a living language and not the result of an archaic or artificial style.
Its language contains many Greek and Persian words that became obscure over time.
It also contains archaic features reminiscent of Old Persian and Avestan.
Today, Burushaski contains numerous loanwords from Urdu ( including English, Persian and Sanskrit words received via Urdu ), and from neighbouring Dardic languages such as Shina and Khowar, as well as a few from Turkic languages, and from the neighboring Sino-Tibetan language Balti, and Wakhi and Pashto.
The syncretic music developed during the post-Portuguese period ( 16th century ) and contains elements from both local music and foreign elements of Arabian, Persian, Indian, Chinese and Western musical and theatrical sources.
The name, which translates as six maqams refers to the structure of the music, which contains six sections in different musical modes, similar to classical Persian traditional music.
Inhabited from the Persian period until the Crusader period, the site contains the remains of the Crusader town of Arsuf, including a fortress surrounded by a moat.
Also as Old Persian contains many words from another extinct Iranian language, Median.
In Persian verse, a ruba ' i visually contains only four lines, its rhyme falling at the middle and end of the lines.
The official language in the Mughal era was Persian and Persian language contains a word " Khalis " which directly translates to " Pure " in English.
* c. 600-The Karnamuk-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan contains references to the Persian game of shatranj, the direct ancestor of modern Chess.
The film contains some dialog in Persian.
Archaeological excavation in Ashkelon began in 1985, led by Lawrence Stager The site contains of accumulated rubble from successive Canaanite, Philistine, Phoenician, Persian, Hellenistic, Roman, Byzantine, Islamic, and Crusader occupation.
* An organization promoting the revival of Middle Persian as a literary and spoken language ( contains a grammar and lessons )
The chapter devoted to what the author rather dismissively calls " bed-time stories " and " fables " contains a large amount of Persian material.
Persian and work
One of Avicenna's important Persian work is the Daaneshnaame ( literally: the book of knowledge ) for Prince ' Ala ad-Daulah ( the local Buyid ruler ).
He was a favorite of Alexander the Great, whom he accompanied in his Persian campaigns, and wrote a third historical work on Alexander.
It was to Aegina rather than Athens that the prize of valour at Salamis was awarded, and the destruction of the Persian fleet appears to have been as much the work of the Aeginetan contingent as of the Athenian ( Herod.
The work was written in Arabic under the Arabic title (), but it is commonly referred to by its Persian title, Kitáb-i-Aqdas (), which was given to the work by Bahá ' u ' lláh himself.
Also academics note that since much of what is known about Manichaeism comes from later 10th and 11th Century CE Islamic historians like Al-Biruni and especially the Shia Muslim Persian historian Ibn al-Nadim ( and his work Fihrist ); " Islamic authors ascribed to Mani the claim to be the Seal of the Prophets " This topic is discussed by an Israeli academic Guy G. Stroumsa
) An early example of the Greek form of the name is in a 4th century BC work by Xenophon, the Cyropaedia, which is a biography of the Persian king Cyrus the Great.
He relied somewhat on the work of an earlier geographer, Marinos of Tyre, and on gazetteers of the Roman and ancient Persian Empire, but most of his sources beyond the perimeter of the Empire were unreliable.
This work was a major inspiration for Edward FitzGerald's Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam, written in Persian.
This translation consisting of 170 quatrains was done from the original Persian text, while most of the other French translations were themselves translations of FitzGerald's work.
But the manuscript was never produced, and British experts in Persian literature were easily able to prove that the translation was in fact based on Edward Heron Allen's analysis of possible sources for FitzGerald ’ s work.
During this time he published Histoire de Nader Chah ( 1770 ), a French translation of a work originally written in Persian by Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi.
Even if this did not work, Themistocles apparently intended that Xerxes would at least begin to suspect the Ionians, thereby sowing dissension in the Persian ranks.
* The earliest references to chess are found in the Persian work Karnamak-i-Artakhshatr-i-Papakan, and the Indian works of Subandhu's Vasavadatta and Banabhatta's Harsha Charitha.
The story of Turandot was taken from a Persian collection of stories called The Book of One Thousand and One Days ( 1722 French translation Les Mille et un jours by François Pétis de la Croix — not to be confused with its sister work The Book of One Thousand and One Nights ), where the character of " Turandokht " as a cold princess was found.
In particular, many tales were originally folk stories from the Caliphate era, while others, especially the frame story, are most probably drawn from the Pahlavi Persian work Hazār Afsān (, lit.
The earliest known documented description of khat is found in the Kitab al-Saidala fi al-Tibb, an 11th century work on pharmacy and materia medica written by Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī, a Persian scientist and biologist.
In 1838 Henry Rawlinson, building on the 1802 work of Georg Friedrich Grotefend, was able to decipher the Old Persian section of the Behistun inscriptions, using his knowledge of modern Persian.
After a relatively brief halt due to opposition from peoples who had filled the vacuum during the Jewish captivity ( Ezra 4 ), work resumed c. 521 BCE under the Persian King Darius ( Ezra 5 ) and was completed during the sixth year of his reign ( c. 518 / 517 BCE ), with the temple dedication taking place the following year.
Its regular usage and classification can be attributed to the Persian mathematician Al-Khwarizmi, when Latin translation of his work on the Indian numerals introduced the decimal positional number system to the Western world.
Additional passages not preserved in MS 5229 are quoted in the work of the 16th century Persian geographer Amīn Rāzī called Haft Iqlīm (" Seven Climes ").
# Clear distinction made by Khayyám, on the basis of the work of earlier Persian philosophers such as Avicenna, between natural bodies and mathematical bodies.
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