A field guide to the traditions, stories, cinema and sound that carry Persian life across generations.
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From Armenian-Iranian and Judeo-Persian communities to Indo-Persian and Central Asian literary traditions, these stories cross languages and borders.
Shah Abbas I resettled Armenian families in New Julfa in 1604–1605. The community became central to a silk-trading network that reached from India to Amsterdam, while sustaining churches, schools, manuscript arts, and Armenian-language traditions in Iran.
For centuries, Iranian Jewish communities recorded poetry, biblical commentary, history, and everyday life in Persian written in Hebrew script. Judeo-Persian preserves distinctive voices connected with Isfahan, Shiraz, Hamadan, Yazd, and communities across the diaspora.
For centuries, Persian served as a language of literature and administration across parts of South Asia. Poets, historians, translators, and courtly networks shaped Indo-Persian culture, leaving a record of exchange between Persian and Indian traditions.
Persian literary culture flourished in cities such as Bukhara and Samarkand. Today, Tajik—a living Persian language written mainly in Cyrillic in Tajikistan—connects Central Asian communities to a shared yet regionally distinct literary heritage.
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