Rostam

Rostam
Author: Abolqasem Ferdowsi
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 252
Release: 2009-09-29
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 110114503X

The selected adventures of Persia's Hercules, from Iran's great national epic No understanding of world mythology is complete without acquaintance with Rostam, Iran's most celebrated mythological hero. According to the Shahnameh (the tenth-century Book of Kings), this titan, magnificent in strength and courage, bestrode Persia for 500 years. While he often served fickle kings - undergoing many trials of combat, cunning, and endurance - he was never their servant and owed allegiance only to his nation's greater good. Anyone interested in folklore, world literature, or Iranian culture will find Rostam both a rousing and illuminating read. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout world history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

Hafez in Love

Hafez in Love
Author: Iraj Pezeshkzad
Publisher: Syracuse University Press
Total Pages: 250
Release: 2021-05-31
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 0815655126

Shams al-Din Mohammad Hafez is in love. He is in love with a girl, with a city, and with Persian poetry. Despite his enmity with the new and dangerous city leader, the jealousy of his fellow court poets, and the competition for his beloved, Iran’s favorite poet remains unbothered. When his wit and charm are not enough to keep him safe in Shiraz, his friends conspire to keep him out of trouble. But their schemes are unsuccessful. Nothing will chase Hafez from this city of wine and roses. In Pezeshkzad’s fictional account, Hafez’s life in fourteenth-century Shiraz is a mix of peril and humor. Set in a city that is at once beautiful and cutthroat, the novel includes a cast of historical figures to illuminate this elusive poet of the Persian literary tradition. Shabani-Jadidi and Higgins’s translation brings the beloved poetry of Hafez alive for an English audience and reacquaints readers with the comic wit and original storytelling of Pezeshkzad.

From Persia With Love

From Persia With Love
Author: Teejay LeCapois
Publisher: Lulu.com
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2014-11-07
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1312653264

Mustafa Al-Harith ( born Michel Honore ) is a man with a complex life. Born in Haiti, Mustafa came to the City of Ottawa to study Civil Engineering at Carleton University. Along the way Mustafa embraced Islam and met Karma Jean-Renaud, a gorgeous Haitian gal with whom he falls in love. She can't handle his lifestyle choices and leaves him. Mustafa's life changes when he meets Taraneh Malekzadeh. The beautiful, Hijab-wearing, feisty Iranian Muslim Tomboy takes Mustafa's breath away and accepts him for who he is. Black, male, Muslim, sensually adventurous, sexually fluid and complex. Can they make a budding relationship work ? Time will tell.

To Persia, with Love

To Persia, with Love
Author: Kenneth Oster
Publisher:
Total Pages: 196
Release: 1980
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780816303687

Young, eager, adventurous, and willing to accept God's commission, Frank and Florence Oster began their married life by setting off to Persia, the land of the Queen Esther. Frank Oster and one of his classmates had been the first resident Adventist missionaries in that country. Following his marriage, Frank took his bride back to his field of labor. These young people went with the intent that this would be their place of labor until the Lord came. Whatever the Lord had for them to do, they determined to do His bidding. "Inshallah" (if God wills it) became their motto. You'll laugh and cry as you read the story about their introduction to the culture and customs of Persia; terror caused by Kurdish raids; the young couple's mission endevors; the birth of their first child and, not long after, the death of the little one. You'll feel the joys and sorrows experienced in the home as three little boys were born to them. You'll anticipate with them the furlough, when at long last they were told they could return home for a visit. You'll wonder how they could feel so deeply about leaving Persia to go to Turkey, but that is all a part of the story--thirty-five years of mission service! Was the burden too great? The price too high? A thousand times No, say those of the family who still remain. The story has not ended with the writing of this book. One of the sons, Kenneth Oster, and his wife, Dorothy Nelson Oster, have gone on to achieve their own mission record of thirty-two years in the Middle East. Dr. Kenneth has used his lifetime acquaintance with the local languages and culture to cultivate a new approaches to the Moslem world. The results of the dedicated work and lives of this family will be fully known only in the kingdom to come. It is as God wills it! - An International Wedding, Honeymoon in Transit, Maragha Housekeeping, One Woman's World, Living With Terror, The Lord Give, and - Trials and Triumphs, The End of an Era, First Furlough, Shadows of the Russian Revolution, Barrier Breakthrough, A Turn of the Tide, Celebrations of the New Look, A Swiss Detour, Tests - the Small and the Great, Call to Turkey, Into the Storm, A Destiny Fulfilled, Epilogue

Persia with Love

Persia with Love
Author: Dr. Rafie Hamidpour
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 80
Release: 2016-04-06
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1622124944

Dr. Rafie Hamidpour has taught at the college level, compiled twelve books, sixty publications, and has received nine certificates of registration from the Library of Congress. He also holds several patent registrations in the U.S. and Canada. But the greatest of all his accomplishments are the relationships with his family and friends. After living in the United States for the past twenty-nine years, the author’s understanding of the American people and culture inspired his previous four books in the series Persia with Love: The Land; Persia with Love: The Events; Persia with Love: Cultures, Tradition, Language; and Persia with Love: The Scholars. This account of Persian history is dedicated to the Persian people willing to sacrifice their own comfort for the greater good of their family and loved ones. Throughout history, the strength of mankind has been emphasized through collective culture. A collective mindset and lifestyle has evolved societies to place greater emphasis on humanity, and less on monetary value. Since the age of industry, many of these concepts have been forgotten as people strive for a different type of success. Money, property, and material possessions have replaced the seemingly obsolescent barometers of the past. The change has come from the focus of these intentions and the source of these desires. Hope lies in the occurrence of the infrequently documented random acts of kindness that members of society take, when acts benefit the doer more than the receiver. These are the ones who authenticate the human morals and ideas that mankind once thrived on and implemented.

Love and Devotion

Love and Devotion
Author: Susan Scollay
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Art, Persian
ISBN: 9781851242788

Tales of earthly and spiritual love were recounted and reinterpreted by Persian poets from the 11th century onwards. Stories of lovers such as Yusuf and Zulaykha, Khusrau and Shirin, and Layla and Majnun were embraced not only in Iran but also in the neighbouring Mughal and Ottoman empires. In courtly settings versified epics and lyrical couplets were copied into illustrated manuscripts for elite patrons in the eastern Islamic world, for whom poetry was a key component of cultural life from the 14th to the18th centuries. Parallels and echoes of these timeless tales and the masterful words of poets such as Sa`di, `Attar, Hafiz and Rumi intersect with European literature from the time of Dante and Shakespeare up to the present day. In this book leading specialists in literature, art history and philosophy reveal new perspectives on the evocative world conjured up by these stories of love and devotion from Persian poetry and the exquisitely-coloured miniature paintings that embellish them. The book presents full-page reproductions of more than 130 folios from illustrated manuscripts and works from the collections of the Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford, and from the State Library of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, many reproduced here for the first time. Published to coincide with landmark exhibitions in Melbourne and Oxford, this volume will appeal to both specialist and general readers.

To Persia, With Love

To Persia, With Love
Author: Doreen Corley
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 198
Release: 2014-02-26
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781494340094

"Iran? Where's that?" When Doreen Corley was first approached with the idea of moving with her husband to preach the gospel in Iran, she was underwhelmed, to say the least. But after 25 years, multiple cultural mishaps, and innumerable cups of tea, she would find that the country and its people had become a part of her. Join Doreen and her family as they run an orphanage, teach Christianity in schools under the Khomeini regime, and stumble their way through Iranian adventures. Doreen joins her friend's honeymoon, gets stranded on a mountain pass while pregnant, and discovers God's sufficiency for her journey in this heart-warming tale.

Persian Love Poetry

Persian Love Poetry
Author: Vesta Sarkhosh Curtis
Publisher: Interlink Publishing Group
Total Pages: 106
Release: 2006
Genre: Cooking
ISBN:

A collection of beautiful Persian love poetry, freshly translated and richly illustrated with magnificent images from world famous collections. Love is a major theme is Persian poetry and can be interpreted in various ways--as mystic love, the basis of the relationship between humans and God, or as passionate or affectionate love between lovers, husbands and wives, parents and children, family and friends, or even as patriotic love of Iran. The literary style and indeed the Persian language itself are floral and elaborate, but the themes differ little from our preoccupations with love and romance today. This collection of extracts has been selected from the best of traditional and contemporary Persian poetry. With a brief introduction to the Persian poetic tradition and a short biographical note about each of the poets, this beautiful anthology is the perfect way to discover the treasures of Persian literature and art.

Persia with Love

Persia with Love
Author: Dr. Rafie Hamidpour
Publisher: Strategic Book Publishing & Rights Agency
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2017-04-25
Genre: History
ISBN: 1681818981

This account of Persian history is dedicated to the Persian people willing to sacrifice their own comfort for the greater good of their family and loved ones. Throughout history, the strength of mankind has been emphasized through collective culture. A collective mindset and lifestyle has evolved societies to place greater emphasis on humanity, and less on monetary value. Since the age of industry, many of these concepts have been forgotten as people strive for a different type of success. Money, property, and material possessions have replaced the seemingly obsolescent barometers of the past. The change has come from the focus of these intentions and the source of these desires. Hope lies in the occurrence of the frequently documented random acts of kindness that members of society take, when acts benefit the doer more than the receiver. These are the ones who authenticate the human morals and ideas that mankind once thrived on and implemented