During the past few years, I wished for all the educational institutions I attended to offer either Persian or Arabic. The script seemed so beautiful and enchanting, when I saw excerpts from the Koran embedded in the kufic style in tiles upon the surfaces of mosques. I've also enjoyed the famous poetry of poets as Ferdowsi, Khayyam and Sa'adi. A while before my trip to Iran, I'd already learned the Arabic alphabet, but to my ignorant dismay, I learned Arabic was far different from Persian. Although they share the same letters, Persian has an additional bunch of letters that were actually not too hard to learn. When the first Muslim Arab invaders came to Persia, they attempted to assimilate the Persian language. But administrative battles during the course of a century changed the course of history
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