Abstract In the “Afghan Genizah,” a recently acquired collection of texts in Judeo-Persian, Early New-Persian, Arabic, Hebrew, and Aramaic from tenth to thirteenth centuries, I recognized Judeo-Persian fragment Jewish, anti-Christian polemic work. This may be – or not part Toledoth Yeshu literature. It contains Gospel quotation Syriac Hebrew letters.

A Look at Contemporary Persian Poetry, Currents in Persian Poetry in 20th Century This book is a historical survey of literature though the writer has tried to distance himself from ancient approaches and to apply a modern look of analysis, critique and stylistics. In the first chapter the methodology is discussed followed by the second chapter which talks of text and metatext and the relation...

Abstract This article examines the contributions of Ghulām ʿAlī “Āzād” Bilgrāmī (1704–1786) to our understanding comparative poetics and Arabic in eighteenth-century Hindustan. It attends Azad’s oeuvre through lenses translation, multilingualism, literary science. Philological analysis reveals how Azad establishes analogues across these three languages that attest adaptive capacity poetics. His...

Abstract This article maps the mainly lost Sasanian historiographical literature through Arabic translations of Middle Persian works and information preserved in early sources. Although only two texts have been original Persian, sources reveal a sizeable corpus translation.

contemporary arab poets have started to recall classic and especially religious figures in their poems to present experiences and ideologies, to rescue the poetry from reportage state and also to enhance their own poetry. the reason why they make use of these religious figures in their poetry is their potential implications and their compatibility with poet’s own current experiences. poets also...

Persian language is transcribed in a lossy manner as it does not, as a rule, encode vowel information. This renders the use of the written script suboptimal for language models for speech applications or for statistical machine translation. It also causes the text-to-speech synthesis from a Persian script input to be a one-to-many operation. In our previous work, we introduced an augmented tran...

This paper exploits the existence of the redundant Arabic extension character, i.e. Kashida. We propose to use pointed letters in Arabic text with a Kashida to hold the secret bit ‘one’ and the un-pointed letters with a Kashida to hold ‘zero’. The method can be classified under secrecy feature coding methods where it hides secret information bits within the letters benefiting from their inherit...

romantic literary school at the beginning of its existence was considered as a clearly visible renewal in feeling and thinking both. this literary school was a revolution against the restrictions established by classical literary schools. in fact, romantic is one of the literal branches that formed first in europe, and then in the nineteenth century came into arabic literature, and arabic liter...