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Süleyman Fehim
Süleyman Fehim Efendi (1789–1846) was a teacher and poet of Persian language, Persian in the Ottoman Empire. Biography Of Ottoman Turks, Turkish origin, he flourished in the first half of the 19th century. Information regarding his youth and education remains unknown. He was initially a servant and student of the scholar Ismail Farrukh Efendi. Under him, Suleyman Fehim matured and become very adept in Persian language, Persian. He then served as a civil servant in Constantinople (now Istanbul) at the royal court and the royal mint, as well as in the Balkans (''Rumelia''). He soon however decided to retire and dedicate his life to studying and writing, and teaching Persian occasionally. Upon his return to Constantinople, he taught Persian to a variety of students, including Ahmed Cevdet Pasha and Fatin Efendi. Fehim wrote a small ''Diwan (poetry), divan'' consisting of poems inspired by the "Indian style" (''Sabk-e Hendi'' in Persian, or ''Sebk-i Hindi'' in Turkish) of Persian poe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
