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Nawrūz (Festival)

Resources about Nawruz -- festival of Persian New Year.

Books

Norouz World Festival : the selected works of The First ECO Int'l Visual Arts Festival by the head of Norouz Festival Policy Making Council, Hojatollah Ayoubi. Tehran : ECO Cultural Institute, Headquarters-Tehran, 2012.

Intellectual interactions in the Islamic world : the Ismaili thread / edited by Orkhan Mir-Kasimov. London ; New York : I.B. Tauris, 2020. Chapter 18. Spring's Equinox: Nawrūz in Ismaili Thought by Shafique N. Virani.

Nawrūz : jashn-i nawzāyī-i āfarīnish by ʻAlī Bulūkbāshī. Tihrān : Daftar-i Pizhūhishʹhā-yi Farhangī, 2001.

Наврўз -- мозийдан садо by Зойир Зиётов : Navrŭz -- moziĭdan sado by Zoĭir Ziëtov. Toshkent : Istiqlol, 2016. In Uzbek (Cyrillic).

Nauryz toĭy : st͡senariĭ, ūlttyq oĭyn, tīlek-bata, nauryz aĭtys, shezhīre zhūmbaq. Almaty : "Zhazushy", 1998. In Kazakh.

Azärbaycanda Novruz änänä vä inancları by Sevinc Qasımova. Bakı : Elm vä tähsil, 2018. In Azerbaijani (roman). Includes bibliographical references (pages 173-186).

 

Nowruznameh of Omar Khayyam Epistle of Nowruz, which is attributed to Omar Khayyam, the celebrated Persian-speaking poet, mathematician, astronomer, and philosopher, has been published in Afghanistan based on the text corrected by Mojtaba Minovi.

Resources for Educators

Celebrating Nowruz. A Resource for Educators (pdf) by the Outreach Center of Center for Middle Eastern Studies Harvard University.

A first Norooz [videorecording] [2005] / PersianMirror.com and Norooz Productions present ; written & directed by Dustin Ellis ; produced by Dustin Ellis ... [et al.]. Variant title: Babak & friends : a first Norooz. Format: DVD.