Iranian studies

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To search the Library catalogue, use the Library of Congress Romanization tables for Persian.

Another common romanization styles are that of the International Journal of Middle East Studies (IJMES) and the Iranian Studies scheme.

Suggested fonts for the romanization:

1. Unicode fonts
2. New Times Arabic

A tool for Mac users: The Arabic Macintosh: an informal resource centre

• Lexilogos is a multilingual keyboard. 
• Omniglot is the online encyclopedic writing systems
• Persian Phonetic Keyboard Layout for Windows is for Microsoft Windows users interested to profit from their skill in typing with Latin QWERTY keyboards to type Persian characters much faster.

• Conversion between Gregorian and Hijri calendars

• Conversion between Gregorian and Shamsi calendars

This guide was created and populated in collaboration with Dr. Eliza Tasbihi, Specialized Cataloging Editor, Islamic Manuscripts, and Ghazaleh Ghanavizchian, Senior Library Clerk, Islamic Studies Library.

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