RELIGIOUS STUDIES 583

Religion and Culture in Iran, 1500-Present

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Persian Cultural Society of UNC

BASIC RESEARCH

Encyclopaedia Iranica
 
Muhsin Makhmalbaf on Afghanistan
Welcome to Isfahan!
 

RELIGIONS OF IRAN

 
Information About Zoroastrianism
World of Traditional Zoroastrianism
H-BAHAI has an extensive collection of digital texts and resources related to the Bahai faith.
A Brief History of Iranian Jews, by Massoume Price
ESTHER'S CHILDREN: A PORTRAIT OF IRANIAN JEWS (conference sponsored by the Iran Heritage Foundation)
Links on Iranian Christianity

SHI`I ISLAM

For a comprehensive site devoted to Twelver Shi`ism, see http://www.al-islam.org/.

An extensive online collection of early Shi`i authoritative texts and multimedia resources has been
assembled by the Ahlul Bayt Digital Islam Library Project
(http://www.al-islam.org/organizations/dilp/).

The office of Iran's supreme leader, Ayatullah Khamenei, has an official web site
at http://www.wilayah.org/english/default.htm.

 

ART AND ARCHITECTURE

Light and Water (Afghanistan)
Princeton Shahnama Project - Homepage
THE IRANIAN_ Arts, painting, artists' tribute to Shahnameh
The Iranian_ Arts, Photography, Bakhtiaris
The Iranian_ Arts_ Homes of Isfafan, Nasrollah Kasraian
THE IRANIAN_ Sponsors, Ghajar paintings, Rose Ghajar
Welcome to Isfahan!

The city of Bam
Agha Khan Visual Archives (select "Middle East", then Iran)

PERSIAN LANGUAGE

Meem Connection (mystical and numerical meanings of letters)
Online English - Persian Dictionary
Online Persian Languange Learning Resource
Persian Home Page
Steingass, Francis Joseph, 1825-1903. A Comprehensive Persian-English Dictionary
The Names of the Persian Alphabet
The Persian Alphabet
Yamada Language Center Persian WWW guide
Yek Ruz Dar Rostamabad-e Shemiran

HOW TO TYPE DOCUMENTS IN PERSIAN WITH MICROSOFT WORD

PERSIAN LITERATURE

Amir Khusro -- a website full of "composite culture"
Hafiz Life & Poetry @ HafizOnLove.com
Medieval Sourcebook_ Sa'di (1184-1292)_ The Gulistan, c. 1256 CE
Nizami_ Layla and Majnun
Persian Literature (Columbia Univ)
Persian Literature
Persopedia - Homepage
Poetry Home Page
Rumi, ghazal 598 Arberry 74 Barks 40
The Internet Classics Archive _ The Epic of Kings by Ferdowsi
THE IRANIAN_ Features, interviews index

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam ~ presented by ELF

Dar-al-Masnavi (the poetry of Rumi; highly recommended)

Fal-e Hafez (divination by the poetry of Hafez)
The Princeton Shahnama Project

IRANIAN FILM

A SURVEY CATALOGUE AND BRIEF CRITICAL HISTORY OF IRANIAN FEATURE FILM (1896-1975) by Reza Talachian