and 'The Rise and Fall of the Barmakids'. The latter is an annotated translation, with Pejman Firoozbakhsh, of a Persian MS held in @bodleian.ox.ac.uk. An expert panel, chaired by Prof Yasmin Khan, took questions from an enthusiastic audience.
#barmakids #documents #Afghanistan #NewPersian 2/2
Photograph is of a document lying on a black background. The document has tears, marks and folds and has New Persian script written in black ink. There is a shelf mark on the right hand side.
This document features in the latest launch on our digital corpus - as well as in November's Document of the Month, 'A History of Two Iranian Festivals: Nawrūz and Sada' by Simone Cristoforetti: bit.ly/NawruzandSada.
#digitalhumanities #medievalsky #BamiyanPapers #NewPersian
Nabi had also previously been honoured for his work, when he was invited to introduce the Fīrūzkūh Papers to an audience at the Aga Khan Centre. Read more about the Fīrūzkūh papers in Nabi's blog at bit.ly/IEblogs #newpersian #documents #afghanistan 2/2
