Re: More Medieval News

am05@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
On Apr 14, 11:07 pm, Paul J Gans <g...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

I was there with a group of students.  

Poor kids :-)

Among them was an Iranian
Jew who had become an American citizen.  He had been forced to
learn Arabic in school in Iran

Why not Pharsy?

That was his native language. Iranians evidently learned Arabic
so that they could read the Koran.

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--- Paul J. Gans
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