Sources of Reference

Most of the books consulted came from here: University of Washington, Suzzallo-Allen Libraries (It doesn't look like it, but they both are connected as one BIG building.)

The front side: Suzzallo Library on Red Square	The back side: Allen Library and the HUB lawn

Books

Grammars

Boyle, John Andrew. Grammar of modern Persian. Wiesbaden, Harrassowitz, 1966.

Elwell-Sutton, L. P. Colloquial Persian. London, Routledge & K. Paul [1965].

Forbes, Duncan, 1798-1868. A grammar of the Persian language : to which is added a selection of easy extracts for reading, together with a vocabulary and translations. Delhi : Gian Publications, 1980. (Reprint of the 1876 ed. published by W. H. Allen, London).

A grammar of the Arabic language, translated from the German of Caspari and edited with numerous additions and corrections by W. Wright. Cambridge : University Press, 1964 [1933].

Lazard, Gilbert. A grammar of contemporary Persian. Translated from the French by Shirley A. Lyon. Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers in association with Bibliotheca Persica, 1992.

Rastorgueva, V. S. A Short sketch of the grammar of Persian. Translated by Steven P. Hill ; edited by Herbert H. Paper, Bloomington : Indiana University ; The Hague, Netherlands : Mouton, 1964. (Manuscript edition, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June, 1963.) (Originally appeared as appendix to B. V. Miller, Persidsko-russkij slovar', Moscow, 1953.)

Thackston, Wheeler McIntosh, Jr. An introduction to Persian. Tehran : Soroush Press, 1978.

Thatcher, Griffithes Wheeler. Arabic grammar of the written language. New York, NY. : Hippocrene books, Inc., c1993, c1982

Tisdall, William St. Clair. Modern Persian conversation grammar. With new reading lessons and Persian letters selected by Zia Missaghi. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1959].

Windfuhr, Gernot & Tehranisa, Hassan. Modern Persian : Elementary Level. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1981. (Revised Edition)

Windfuhr, Gernot & Bostanbakhsh, Shapur. Modern Persian : Intermediate Level I. Ann Arbor, University of Michigan, 1980. (Revised Edition)

Language Studies

Elwell-Sutton, L. P. The Persian metres. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1976.

Gordon, Cyrus Herzl. Forgotten scripts; how they were deciphered and their impact on contemporary culture. New York, Basic Books [1968].

Perry, John R. Form and meaning in Persian vocabulary : the Arabic feminine ending. Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers in association with Bibliotheca Persica, 1991.

Windfuhr, Gernot. Persian grammar : history and state of its study. The Haque ; New York : Mouton Publishers, c1979.

Literature Studies

Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani. The Maqamat of Badi al-Zaman al-Hamadhani, translated from the Arabic with an introduction and notes, historical and grammatical by W. J. Prendergast. [1st ed. reprinted]; with a foreword by C. E. Bosworth. London, Curzon Press, 1973.

Browne, Edward Granville. A literary history of Persia. London, Fisher, Unwin, 1902-1924. (4 volumes)

Hali, Khvajah Altaf Husain. Yadgar-i Ghalib. Lakhnaw: Idarah-yi furugh-i Urdu, [1965?]

Meier, Friedrich Max. Die schone Mahsati: ein Beitrag zur Geschichte des persischen Vierzeilers. Weisbaden : F. Steiner 1963. (Series: Veroffentlichungen der Orientalischen Kommission ; Bd. 15 (pp. 125-382).

Thackston, W. M. A millennium of classical Persian poetry : a guide to the reading & understanding of Persian poetry from the tenth to the twentieth century. Bethesda, Md. : Iranbooks, c1994.

Thackston, W. M. & Ziai, Hossein. Guy va chawgan, ya, Halnamah = The ball and polo stick, or, The book of ecstacy : parallel Persian-English text. Costa Mesa, CA : Mazda Publishers, 1999.

Botanical

Qahraman, Ahmad. Flur-i rangi-i Iran. Flore de l'Iran en couleurs naturelles: tahiyah ve tadvin-i Ahmad Qahraman. tahiyah ve tadvin-i Ahmad Qahraman. Teheran : Anjuman-i Milli-i Hifazat-i Manabii Tabii va-Muhit-i Insani ba hamkari-i Danishgah-i Tihran, [197-?].

Maps

Sahab, A. Tehran and suburbs. Tehran : Geographical & Drafting Institute, 1959.

Works

Anvari

Anvari, Awhad al-Din. Divan-i Anvari, ba muqaddimah va-tashih va-muqabalah-i hasht nuskhah. Bi-kushish-i Said Nafisi. [Tihran] Muassisah-i Matbuati-i Piruz [1959].

Attar

Attar, Farid al-Din. The speech of the birds : concerning migration to the real, the Mantiqu't-tair / Faridu'd-Din Attar ; presented in English by P.W. Avery. Cambridge, UK : Islamic Texts Society, c1998.

Hafez

Divan-i Hafiz Khvajah Shams al-Din Muhammad / bih tashih va tawzih-i Parviz Natil Khanlari. Tihran : Intisharat-i Khvarazmi, 1362 [1983 or 1984]

Nezami

Nizami Ganjavi. Kulliyat-i Khamsah-i Nizami : Makhzan al-asrar, Khusraw va Shirin, Layla va Majnun, Haft paykar, Iskandarnamah, Iqbalnamah, mutabiq nuskhah-i tashih shudah-i Vahid Dastgardi. Tihran : Intisharat-i Nigah, 1372 [1993].

Darab, Gholam Hosein. Makhzanol Asrar: The Treasury of Mysteries of Nezami of Ganjeh. London, Arthur Probstain, 1945.

Qa'ani

Qaani, Habib Allah Shirazi. Divan-i Hakim Qaani Shirazi: ba muqaddamah va tashih-i Nasir Hayyiri. Tihran : Intisharat-i Gulshai, 1363

Rumi

Bang-i nay : (dastanha-yi Masnavi-i Mawlavi) bi-intikhab-i Muhammad Ali Jamalzadah ; ba muqaddamah-i Badi al-Zaman Furuzanfar. Tihran : Rad, [199-?].

Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana. Masnavi-i manavi / talif-i Jalal al-Din Muhammad ibn Muhammad al-Balkhi summa al-Rumi ; bih tashih-i Rinuld A. Nikulsun ; bih ihtimam-i Nasr Allah Purjavadi. Tihran : Amir Kabir, 1363 [1984 or 1985].

Jalal al-Din Rumi, Maulana. The Mathnawi of Jalalu'ddin Rumi, edited from the oldest manuscripts available with critical notes, translation, and commentary by Reynold A. Nicholson. [s. l. : s. n.] ; London : distributed by Luzac, 1977.

Sa`di

The Odes of Sheikh Muslihu-d-din Sadi Shirazi. Edited by Sir Lucas White King. Calcutta, Asiatic Society, 1919. Fascilus 1.

The rose-garden of Shekh Muslihud-din Sadi of Shiraz, translated by Edward B. Eastwick ; with an introductory preface, and a life of the author, from the Atish Kadah. London : Octagon Press, 1974. (Reprint of the 1852 ed.)

Tayyibat: The odes of Sheikh Muslihu'd-Din Sa`di Shirazi. Translated by the late Sir Lucas White King. London: Luzac & Co, 1926.

Ghazaliyat-i Sadi, bih tashih-i Habib Yaghmai. Tihran : Muassasah-i Mutalaat va Tahqiqat-i Farhangi, 1361 [1982].

Ghazal-ha-yi Sadi : pas az muqabilah-i haft nuskhah-i khatti va dah nuskhah-i chapi, bih kushish-i Nur Allah Izadparast. Tihran : Danish, 2535 [1976]. (2 volumes)

Kulliyat-i Sadi, ba istifadah az nuskhah-i tashih shudah / Muhammad Ali Furughi (Zaka al-Mulk); ba muqaddamah-i Abbas Iqbal. Tihran : Iqbal,

Sanai

Sanai al-Ghaznavi, Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam. Divani-i Hakim Abu al-Majd Majdud ibn Adam Sanai Ghaznavi, ba muqaddimah va havashi va fihrist bi-say va ihtiman Mudarris Razavi. [Tehran] : Kitabkhanah-i Sanai, 1362 [1983].

Works by Jamalzade

Bang-i nay : (dastanha-yi Masnavi-i Mawlavi) bi-intikhab-i Muhammad Ali Jamalzadah ; ba muqaddamah-i Badi al-Zaman Furuzanfar. Tihran : Rad, [199-?]

Jamalzadah, Muhammad Ali. Farhang-i lughat-i amiyanah. (Edited by M. Mahjub). Teheran : Antisharat Farang Airan Zamin, 1963.

Jamalzadah, Muhammad Ali. Talkh va shirin. Tihran, [1955].

Jamalzadah, Muhammad Ali. Talkh va shirin bi kushish-i Ali Dihbashi. Tihran : Sukhan, 1379 [2000].

Khatirat-i Sayyid Muhammad Ali Jamalzadah, bih kushish-i Iraj Afshar, Ali Dihbashi. Tihran : Nashr-i Shahab : Sukhan, 1999.

Dictionaries

Burhan, Muhammad Husayn ibn Khalaf Tabrizi. Burhan-i qati. Bi-ihtimam-i Muhammad Muin. Tihran, Kitabfirushi-yi Ibn Sina, 1342 [1963].

The combined new Persian-English and English-Persian dictionary, by Abbas Aryanpur Kashani and Manoochehr Aryanpur Kashani. Lexington, Ky., USA : Mazda Publishers, 1986.

Dayhim, Giti. Farhang-i avai-i farsi. Tihran : Farhang-i Muasir, 2000.

Dihkhuda, Ali Akbar. Lughatnamah. Zir-i nazar-i Muhammad Muin va Jafar Shahidi. Tihran : Muassasah-i Intisharat va Chap-i Danishgah-i Tihran : ba hamkari-i Intisharat-i Rawzanah, 1372-1373 [1993-1994].

Farhang-i Farsi-i Danish : shamil-i alfaz va kalimat-i mamul va mutadavil dar zaban-i Farsi-i imruz. Talif-i Habib Allah Amuzgar. Tihran : Shinasnamah-i Kitab, 1370 [1991 or 1992].

Farhang-i jami-i Farsi : Anand Raj : shamil-i lughat-i Farsi va Arabi ... / talif-i Muhammad Padshah, mutakhallis bih Shad ; zir-i nazar-i Dabir-i Siyaqi [Tehran] : Kitabfurushi-i Khayyam, 1363 [1984 or 1985].

Farhang-i lughat-i amiyanah va muasir : shamil-i lughat-i amiyanah va vazhahha-yi naw va mutadavil dar asar-i navisandigan-i muasir-i Farsi, talif-i Mansur Sarvat, Riza Anzabi Nizhad. Tihran : Sukhan, 1377 [1998].

Lane, Edward William. Arabic-English lexicon. New York, F. Ungar Pub. Co. [1955-56].

MacKenzie, D. N. A concise Pahlavi dictionary. London, New York, Oxford University Press, 1971.

Muin, Muhammad. Farhang-i Farsi mutavassit : shamil-i yak muqaddamah va sih bakhsh : lughat, tarkibat-i khariji, ilam ...Tihran : Muassasati Intisharat-i Amir Kabir, 1362 [1983]

Najafi, Abu al-Hasan. Farhang-i Farsi-i amiyanah. [Tehran] : Nilufar, 1378 [1999 or 2000].

Platts, John Thompson. A dictionary of Urdu, classical Hindi, and English. [London] Oxford University Press [1960].

Steingass, Francis Joseph. A comprehensive Persian-English dictionary, including the Arabic words and phrases to be met with in Persian literature, being Johnson and Richardson's Persian, Arabic, and English dictionary revised, enlarged, and entirely reconstructed by F. Steingass. London, K. Paul, Trench, Trubner & co., ltd. [1930]

Wehr, Hans. A dictionary of modern written Arabic; edited by J. Milton Cowan. 3rd rev. ed. Ithaca, N.Y. : Spoken Language Services, 1971.

Yule, Henry. Hobson-Jobson; a glossary of colloquial Anglo-Indian words and phrases, and of kindred terms, etymological, historical, geographical and discursive. London, J. Murray, 1903.

Encyclopedias

Encyclopaedia Iranica, edited by Ehsan Yarshater. London ; Boston : Routledge and K. Paul, [1982-. (Vols. 6- have imprint: Mazda Publishers, Costa Mesa, California.) (Volumes 1-9 = A-G published so far.) Connect to Encyclopaedia Iranica online for a small fee: http://www.iranica.com/articles/index.html

Tehran

Najmi, Nasir. Tihran dar yaksad sal-i pish. Tihran : Arghavan, 1368 [1989].

Travelogues

Benjamin, Samuel Greene Wheeler. Persia and the Persians. Boston, Ticknor and company, 1887. (Also available in translation: Iran va Iraniyan : Khatirat va safarnamah-i Samuil Girin Vilir Binjamin nukhustin safir-i Amrika dar Iran / bi-ihtimam-i Rahim Rizazadah-i Malik. Tihran : Nashr az Gul Bank, 1363 [1984].)

Browne, Edward Granville. A year amongst the Persians; impressions as to the life, character, & thought of the people of Persia, received during twelve months' residence in that country in the years 1887-1888. London, A. and C. Black, 1950.