Trace of Time-Collection of Articles-Dr.Ali Asghar Sherdoust

PREFACE

 

The Persian language being one of the oldest languages ​​of the world despite the changes that have occurred for centuries has long remained the language of mediation on a wide expanse of the vast Asian continent. This language, of course after the Arabic, is a second language of the Islamic world, and there is no language like Persian in the world except for Arabic, in which so great amount of books are printed. 

If there ever was a Persian language spread over the Indo-China to North Africa, Asia Minor, from Central Asia to some parts of the Eastern Europe, Bosnia and Albania and its speakers created their literary and scientific works in it, today despite the fact that this language does not have the former prevalence in three countries - Iran, Tajikistan and Afghanistan it still enjoys the status of official language, and there are people in some other countries, including Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, Pakistan, India, Azerbaijan, Turkey and Iraq who speak Farsi and write poetry in this language.

The author of these lines in the discharge of his duties of the cultural representative at various points of this vast land along with his departmental responsibilities to the extent possible and with great enthusiasm was engaged in scientific researches.

May be what is collected in this book will bring some benefit to representatives of science and culture.

To write a foreword to the text which is a foreword itself is not a blessing. Through these lines I just wanted to say that we have still much to read and talk about the region in order to provide the conditions for more stable and deep cultural development of our common world of culture.

 

Aliasghar She'rdoust

Ambassador of the Islamic Republic of Iran

in Tajikistan

Summer of 2010