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The Golha (Persian: گلها, romanized: Flowers) was a radio broadcast on an Iranian government-owned radio station Radio Tehran, active from 1956 to 1979. [1] [2] The history of the broadcast is supported by The Golha Project. There were 1,578 programs, consisting of approximately 847 hours of music and poetry. [1]
The Blind Owl (1936; Persian: بوف کور, Boof-e koor, listen ⓘ) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th-century Iran. Written in Persian, it is narrated by an unnamed pen case painter, who addresses his murderous confessions to a shadow on his wall that resembles an owl. His confessions do not follow a linear ...
Two Centuries of Silence has been translated into English by Paul Sprachman (Oct. 5, 2017). [2] In his extensive introductory essay, Sprachman offers an analysis as how Zarrinkub was compelled to change his historical view of Iranian history after the 1979 Revolution [3] The book was earlier translated by Avid Kamgar (Aug. 19, 2016) and published by Oughten House Publications.
Mahur (audio file played on Santur. Rast-Panjgah (audio file played on Santur. Most scholars divide the traditional Persian art music to seven dastgāh s, although some divide them into 12 dastgāh s (by counting Abu Ata, Dashti, Afshari, Bayat-e Kord and Bayat-e Esfahan as separate dastgāh s rather than subcategories of other dastgāh s). [6]
It was a remote predecessor of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ('Book of Kings'), the 10th-century Iranian national epic, which, it is assumed, drew from a version [2] or versions of the Khwaday-Namag. [3] Scholars have tried to determine the content of the Khwaday-Namag through a comparison of Zoroastrian works, Arabic sources, and Ferdowsi's Shahnameh ...
Avaz, or Awaz (Persian: آواز) is an unmetered vocal section of a mode in Persian music.. In the years 1965 and 1966, Mahmud Karimi (maestro of Persian vocal music) performed the whole Avazs which were recorded and transcribed by Mohammad-Taghi Massoudieh.
Haft Awrang (Persian: هفت اورنگ, meaning "Seven Thrones") by the Persian poet Jami is a classic of Persian literature composed some time between 1468 and 1485. Jami completed the work as seven books following a masnavi format: "Selselat adh-dhahab" (سلسلة الذهب, "Chain of Gold"): a collection of didactic anecdotes
The Javid Nama (Persian: جاویدنامه), or Book of Eternity, is a Persian book of poetry written by Muhammad Iqbal and published in 1932. It is considered to be one of the masterpieces of Iqbal. It is inspired by Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy, and just as Dante's guide was Virgil, Iqbal is guided by Maulana Rumi. Both of them visit ...