Re: Book recommendation request...

At 12:02 19.6.2000 -0400, Mia wrote:

>I am wondering if anyone can recommend a good beginner's text (in
>English or Spanish) for learning Dari (Persian).
Dari is the Afghanistan variety of Persian.  Do you want that specifically,
or will the Farsi of Iran do as well?

I can ask my supervisor, but specifically Dari material is probably scarce.

>Also I was
>wondering if anyone could tell me where to get handwriting
>workbooks for Arabic. I had seen some, and now I can't remember
>where or how to find them again.
First and foremost:

Author:
Rice, Frank A.
Title:
The classical Arabic writing system
Edition:
4. pr.
Published:
Cambridge, Mass.
Year:
1959, pr. 1966
Description:
48 pages

And then:

Title:
Reading Nasta'liq : Persian and Urdu hands from 1500 to the present /
[compiled by] Willaim L. Hanaway and Brian Spooner.
Published:
Costa Mesa, Calif. : Mazda Publishers
Year:
1995.
Description:
x, 278 p.
Series:
Bibliotheca Iranica. Literature series ; 3
Coauthor:
Hanaway, William L

Spooner, Brian
ISBN:
1-56859-033-4 : Price 24.95

Here is one I haven't seen in real life, but would like to:

Author:
Gruendler, Beatrice
Title:
The development of the Arabic scripts : from the Nabatean era to the first
Islamic century according to dated texts / by Beatrice Gruendler
Published:
Atlanta, Ga. : Scholars Press
Year:
1993
Description:
ix, 171 s. : ill.
Series:
Harvard Semitic studies ; 43
ISBN:
1-55540-710-2


>Thanks for any help...
What's friends for...

/BP

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