This weekend I purchased two books for my upcoming class. The first is:
An Introduction to Persian by Wheeler M. Thackston. It's a terrific textbook because it immediately introduces the student to a difficult script called
Nastaliq. Nastaliq is a calligraphy style which tends to be written on a slant and most Persian manuscripts were written in beautiful nastaliq that wrapped around illuminated miniature paintings.
The second book is a comprehensive dictionary titled: The Combined Persian-English and English-Persian Dictionary by Abbas and Manoochehr Kashani. It's a decent purchase but the typeset tends to be small and blurry. Oh well, at least the cover is a pleasant shade of green.
If I may... I have that book, too, but a much better one I found was Haim's Farhang Moaser Shorter Persian-English dictionary. It's portable, and is decent (though only Persian-English not English-Persian btw). I used to have another copy of it, let me see if I can dig it up :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a good buy! I'll put it on my Amazon wishlist :)
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