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Issues in language teaching
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ISSN: 24766194 Year: 2012 Publisher: Tehran : Allameh Tabataba'i University Press,


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Persia
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ISBN: 1280687487 1136841555 9786613664426 0203833198 9781136841552 9780203833193 9781136841507 9781136841545 9780415608411 1136841547 Year: 2012 Publisher: Hoboken Taylor & amp; Francis

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This volume is a fascinating portrait of a part of the world uneasily balanced between many loyalties - East and West, European and Arabic. The coronation of the Shah in 1967 marked the end of the need for foreign aid, and Iran emerged from her struggles to become the leading nation in the Middle East. Written before the crippling Iran-Iraq war broke out, this book looked forward to Iran's great future, which, in the author's opinion, could only be achieved if she broke with her traditions to form a new material and spiritual synthesis.


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Local Portraiture : Through the Lens of the 19th Century Iranian Photographers
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ISBN: 9087281560 9087282834 9400600771 9789400600775 9789087281564 9789400600782 940060078X Year: 2012 Publisher: [Leiden] : Leiden University Press,

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Photography is clearly not a mirror of daily life: that images are constructions is especially obvious in 19th-century studio portrait photography. This book explores how indigenous Iranian photographers constructed their own realities in contrast to how foreign photographers constructed Iranians' realities. Through an in-depth comparative visual analysis of 19th-century Iranian portrait photography and Persian painting, the author arrives at the insight that aesthetic preferences correlate with socio-cultural habits and practices in writing, reading and looking. Subsequently, she advocates for a place in a global history of photography for those unknown, local photo histories (such as the Iranian one) and for the indigenous photographers who produced them.


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Pizhūhishʹhā-yi rāhburdī-i siyāsat.
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ISSN: 24766208 Year: 2012 Publisher: Tihrān : Dānishgāh-i ʻAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʼī, Dānishkadah-i Ḥuqūq va ʻUlūm-i Siyāsī


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Faṣlnāmah-i pizhūhish-i ḥuqūq-i khuṣūṣī.
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ISSN: 24766232 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Tehran] : [Dānishgāh-i ʻAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʼī, Dānishkadah-i Ḥuqūq va ʻUlūm-i Siyāsī],


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Literacy in the Persianate world : writing and the social order
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ISBN: 9781934536452 1934536458 1934536563 128389887X Year: 2012 Volume: v. 4 Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology,

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Persian has been a written language since the sixth century B.C. Only Chinese, Greek, and Latin have comparable histories of literacy. Although Persian script changed-first from cuneiform to a modified Aramaic, then to Arabic-from the ninth to the nineteenth centuries it served a broader geographical area than any language in world history. It was the primary language of administration and belles lettres from the Balkans under the earlier Ottoman Empire to Central China under the Mongols, and from the northern branches of the Silk Road in Central Asia to southern India under the Mughal Empire. Its history is therefore crucial for understanding the function of writing in world history.Each of the chapters of Literacy in the Persianate World opens a window onto a particular stage of this history, starting from the reemergence of Persian in the Arabic script after the Arab-Islamic conquest in the seventh century A.D., through the establishment of its administrative vocabulary, its literary tradition, its expansion as the language of trade in the thirteenth century, and its adoption by the British imperial administration in India, before being reduced to the modern role of national language in three countries (Afghanistan, Iran, and Tajikistan) in the twentieth century. Two concluding chapters compare the history of written Persian with the parallel histories of Chinese and Latin, with special attention to the way its use was restricted and channeled by social practice.This is the first comparative study of the historical role of writing in three languages, including two in non-Roman scripts, over a period of two and a half millennia, providing an opportunity for reassessment of the work on literacy in English that has accumulated over the past half century. The editors take full advantage of this opportunity in their introductory essay.PMIRC, volume 4


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Pizhūhish-i ḥuqūq-i kayfarī.
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ISSN: 24766224 Year: 2012 Publisher: [Tehran] : [Dānishgāh-i ʻAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʼī, Dānishkadah-i Ḥuqūq va ʻUlūm-i Siyāsī]


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Shoshannat Yaakov : Jewish and Iranian studies in honour of Yaakov Elman
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ISBN: 9789004235441 9789004235458 Year: 2012 Volume: 35 Publisher: Leiden Boston Brill


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Xenophon's Anabasis, or the Expedition of Cyrus
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ISBN: 9780195188684 9780195188677 0195188675 0195188683 Year: 2012 Volume: *5 Publisher: Oxford [etc.] Oxford University Press

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