“How can one be Persian?” asks Montesquieu. “How can one learn Persian?” they ask me sometimes.
The French of the East. For a thousand years, the language of culture from Istanbul through the Caucasus to India, and in many places still it is; without it you cannot penetrate beyond a certain point into this world. The language of the purest poetry: the Persian poems are structured so much by the musicality of the language that they are untranslatable, any attempt is just a prosaic extract of their content. The language of music: the two and a half thousand year old Persian music is just as sophisticated, powerful and engaging as the European classical music. The language of a unique visual culture, to which, apart from the miniatures, the Iranian films and photos also bear witness. Of a multinational, multicultural, beautiful and isolated country of the size of a quarter of Europe, where only this language opens up doors and people, but this really does.
Kayhan Kalhor (kamanche) and Erdal Erzincan (saz): Gulnîshan (7:01) history Müteferrika in Iran Sir Gore Ouseley and the Treaty of Gulistan (1813) Sándor Kégl’s Persian journey Ármin Vámbéry’s Persian journeys Persian travel sketches by Fedor Karacsay Nasreddin Shah in Hungary, 1889 Ahmad Mirza, the little prince (1909-1925) Ahmad Mirza on the bridge of sirat Paraphrase of the Shahnameh against Hitler, 1943 Beard fashions in Iran Elections and manifestations in Iran, 2009 It’s winter sites The chariot of time on Isfahan’s main square Bicycles in Isfahan The faces of Kashan Qâjâr-era palaces in Kashan and Shiraz ( fr )Abyaneh, the Red Village Ashura in Abyaneh Village mosque in Abyaneh (fr )Nomadic butter churn in Abyaneh Masouleh, 1975 The Persian desert On the edge of the desert A mineral world Vaults of Yazd Zoroastrian towers of silence The tomb of Queen Esther in Hamadan The Bakhtiari village of Sar Agha Seyyed Bakhtiari tents Khaled Nabi’s cemetery Gorgan: Turkoman shepherds and the village of Ziyarat Ruinous hammam in Kerman Cave dwellings in Kandovan Tehran, Behesht-e Zahra cemetery Beggar’s fiddle from the Museum of Music First day in the school in Mazandaran and Tehran Tabriz, the city of treasures Armenian monasteries in Iran Armenian churches in Northern Iran (fr )“Shepherd’s church” facing the Armenian cemetery of Julfa The Armenian quarter in Isfahan (fr )Damghan, birthplace of the demijohn? Qajar influences in 19th-c. Tiflis nature Spring poppies in the Zagros Imperial crowns in the Zagros Conquering the Savalan Mountain translations of poetry Mehdi Akhavan Sales: Comets and nights Sohrab Sepehri: Direction Omar Khayyam: The eternal secret Mehdi Akhavan Sales: It’s winter Hafez: From the blood of my heart Malek o-Sho'arâ Bahâr: Dawn bird Hushang Ebtehaj: As strangers Shahram Nazeri: Spring lily Fereidoun Moshiri: Trust in the spring Sohrab Sepehri: Village music The power of Persian music Bakhtiari folk music: Cheshme-ye Kuhrang Masoud Bakhtyari: Tey tum rah Mahsa & Marjan Vahdat: Gol-e lâle Mohsen Namjoo: Name Hojjat Ashrafzadeh: Jam-e vasl Hossein Alizadeh - Kayhan Kalhor - Mohammad Reza Shajarian - Homayoun Shajarian: Zemestân ast Kayhan Kalhor: Desert night Soheil Nafisi: Hame-ye faslân-e donyâ Mohammad Reza Lotfi: Vatanam Iran Sahrab Tolouie: Tango perso Shahram Nazeri: Lâle-ye bahâr Shajarian – Kalhor – Alizadeh: Morgh-e sahâr Bijan Kamkar & Mastan Ensemble: Gharibâne Soheil Nafisi: Shahâbhâ va shabhâ Hossein Alizadeh: Horizon Sepa va dopa. Dance from Lorestan Asita Hamidi: Dokhtar-e Buir Ahmadi Freidoun Poorreza – Hossein Hamidi: Naz Bedashteh Davood Azad: Rumi + Bach photo Hamid Khurshidi: Shepherds in Gorgan Alieh Sâdatpur: Bicycles in Isfahan Shahram Sharif: Iranian fragments Ehsan Amini and Hamed Masoumi Ahmad Kavousian: Masouleh 1975 Ahmad Kavousian: Desert people Nasrollah Kasraian: The desert Alieh Sâdatpur: Bakhtiari tents Hamid Khurshidi: First day in the school in Mazandaran Ali Rafiei: First day in the school in Tehran Mohammad Javad Martabi: The village of Ziyarat Abotaleb Nadri: Brick-making children Ali Majdfar and Ardeshir Soltani: Khaled Nabi’s cemetery Mansure Motamedi: Flower-sellers in Tehran Omid H. Hassan: Tehran in Budapest miniature Paraphrase of the Shahnameh A cup of tea from Isfahan Persian Jewish bride and bridegroom portrait motifs Butterfly and candle Bird Imperial crown and tulip Bear cub Iranian languages and cultures Tat villages in the Caucasus Lahij, the village of Persian border guards Tat and Pamiri languages Persian architecture in Tiflis The market in Kabul Poppy fields in Afghanistan other A train to Persia Come with us to Iran! 30 (and more) reasons to visit Iran (fr )Happy new year, Persia Persian cuisine Iran’s secret language, the Russian The “five stones” game in Persia Sufi The origin of sin
Publicado por Studiolum on 2013-03-12 01:22
“How can one be Persian?” asks Montesquieu. “How can one learn Persian?” they ask me sometimes.
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