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Linguistic ability
Written by omid   
Thursday, 27 December 2007

Pas zabân mahrami khod digar ast
ham-deli az ham-zabâni behtar ast
      (Rumi,Masnavi,1:1215)

"So,
the language of intimacy
is something else...

Better to be of the same heart
than speak the same tongue."

 

Classical Arabic: Excellent Reading Knowledge
Classical Persian: Excellent Reading Knowledge/Native Speaker Fluency
French: Reading Competency
Urdu: Some Reading Knowledge
Turkish: starting to....
German:  basic
Latin:  trying not to forget what I once knew
Mantiq al-tayr: For the Solomons of this world
Zabân-e del: Still working on it...

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Omid Safi
Professor of Religious Studies,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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