GILBERT LAZARD
Articles by GILBERT LAZARD
- DARĪ
DARĪ, name given to the New Persian literary language at a very early date and widely attested in Arabic (e.g.,…
- BENVENISTE, ÉMILE
BENVENISTE, ĒMILE (1902-76), French scholar, eminent Iranist, and one of the greatest linguists of his era. He was born at…
- PROSODY iii. MIDDLE PERSIAN
PROSODY iii. MIDDLE PERSIAN Pre-Islamic Iran certainly cultivated poetry. The Parthian minstrels (gōsān) enjoyed great fame (Boyce, 1957), and Ebn-al-Moqaffaʿ,…