Carlo G. Cereti. “From Middle to New Persian: Written Materials from Northern Iran and Khorasan”

After the Arab-Muslim conquest (c. 650 CE), what we know of Middle Persian literacy in territory known as Ērānsahr is still little documented. Precisely, there evidence about linguistic developments during first two centuries but for an extract allegedly written by ibn al-Muqaffa. Most scholars’ debate on this passage based studied – mainly, inscriptions found south western part Sasanian empire. Sure enough, Pahlavi alphabet was ...