Word: persians
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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...universities where the Softas and Ulemas, and lower down the Imauns and Kyatibs, study, and, so to speak, graduate. Language and theology are of most importance in the eyes of the Ulema (or Dons) of a Medresse. Language means grammar, rhetoric, poetry, calligraphy and almost anything else, in Arabic, Persian and Turkish. Theology includes the interpretation of the Koran and traditions. The instruction in the Medresses is not likely to advance in any great degree the cause of general enlightenment in Turkey, Quite recently a minister of public instruction, sitting upon a commission for looking into the state...
...Persian language has been added to the curriculum at Cornell...
...Jessup has declined the Persian mission to which he was recently appointed and confirmed, because he cannot speak the Persian language...
...fluently more languages than any other person in the world. Several official papers recently received by the State department at Washington, in languages that no one there understood, have been sent to him to translate, which he has done without difficulty. It is reported that his familiarity with the Persian tongue, as well as with nearly all the important languages of Asia and Europe, has caused his appointment as charge d'affaires in Persia to be strongly recommended and favorably considered at Washington...