Alexander Jabbari
@yakabikaj
Professor of sundry Persianate things. I write about language, literature, history, philology, politics.
My book The Making of Persianate Modernity is now available in paperback! There's a 20% discount - use the code HIST1225 at checkout.
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Chang Yuchen, Coral Dictionary Inspired by the shapes of coral on a small Malaysian island and by a Chinese-Malay-English dictionary, the artist crafts a unique Malay script out of coral debris.
Chang Yuchen, Coral Dictionary Inspired by the shapes of coral on a small Malaysian island and by a Chinese-Malay-English dictionary, the artist crafts a unique Malay script out of coral debris.
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Interesting vowels in this Afghan Persian song. Mir Maftun has the majhūl vowel [ē] in words like bēmār and dēwāna, but has a clearly maʿrūf [ī] in labrīz (not labrēz as I'd expect). The first vowel in dunyā is also interesting, sounds very fronted to me, almost like [ɪ].
![yakabikaj's tweet image. Interesting vowels in this Afghan Persian song. Mir Maftun has the majhūl vowel [ē] in words like bēmār and dēwāna, but has a clearly maʿrūf [ī] in labrīz (not labrēz as I'd expect).
The first vowel in dunyā is also interesting, sounds very fronted to me, almost like [ɪ].](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/GwOibSJWkAASdti.jpg)
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Persian: گهی پشت به زین و گهی زین به پشت "sometimes you sit on the saddle and sometimes the saddle's on you"
Egyptian Arabic proverb of the day يوم عسل يوم بصل yōm ʿasal, yōm baṣal "A day of honey, a day of onion," meaning everything has its ups and downs
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Please donate and share: Healing Hands Fund is sending a neonatologist to Gaza & raising money for baby supplies. They are a small grassroots organization of pediatricians and their colleagues who have expertise and experience getting crucial health supplies to Palestine.
Kerala is typically thought of as connected to Arabic via the Indian Ocean but not to the Persianate world further north, so I'm intrigued by the mention of this Arabi-Malayalam press printing "other cultural forms of Persian tales" in the early 1880s.
Blog post by Mohammed Khaleel on early Arabi-Malayalam lithographed books printed in Kerala in the 1870s-1880s in the @britishlibrary collection - interesting parallels with early Malay lithographic printing from Singapore blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-afri…
In Turkish armut "pear" 🍐 also connotes a fool or a sucker. I wonder what makes this particular fruit stupid.
It's becoming easier to find a climate denier among climate scientists than a genocide-denier among genocide scholars. Extremely important piece in the NY Times -->
Palimpsest featuring layers of commentary upon commentary
Melchior Leydekker's Malay translation of the Book of Judges (Kitab Hakim-hakim) in jawi script, published in 1733. Jawi is the Malay abjad based on alefba-ye Farsi.
Beginning of Genesis in Arabic and Bohairic Coptic Wadi Natrun, Egypt, 1273
Genesis or 'Paidaish', from The Holy Bible ('Kitab-e Muqaddas') in Roman Urdu, published in 1860.
Beginning of Genesis in Arabic and Bohairic Coptic Wadi Natrun, Egypt, 1273
Beginning of Genesis in Arabic and Bohairic Coptic Wadi Natrun, Egypt, 1273
