The Orientalists

Abstract In this book distinguished experts from a range of disciplines (Orientalists, philologists, philosophers, theologians and historians) address a central prob...

A renowned Enlightenment polymath, Sir William Jones (1746–94) was a lawyer, translator and poet who wrote authoritatively on politics, comparative linguistics and oriental literat...

The Persian historiographical tradition imposed a good deal of restriction on the premodern projects of genealogy. Authors in the service of the nascent states of the sixteenth cen...

The first volume of the textbook consists of sixty lessons, in which several parts of speech, the Past Tense, appropriate texts and necessary exercises for the course are presented...