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    Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo (Persian: زردشت بهرام پژدو), was a significant Persian Zoroastrian poet and the son of Bahram-e-Pazhdo. He was born in the early...
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    Zoroaster (redirect from Zartosht)
    philosophical novel by German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche. Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo, author of a Persian epic biography on Zoroaster. Zoroaster and...
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  • Library in St. Petersburg, Russia. Bahram-e Pazhdo was the father of Zartosht Bahram, composer of the better-known Zartosht-nama. In the son's verse adaptation...
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    Bahrām Beyzāêi (also spelt Beizāi, Beyzāêi, Beyzāee, Persian: بهرام بیضائی; born 26 December 1938) is an Iranian playwright, theatre director, screenwriter...
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    of the celebrated warrior-hero Rostam; his youngest son Bahram after the Sasanian shah Bahram V (r. 420–438), famous for his romantic life and hunting...
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    "A Bird's Prayer"), an early contemplation on animal rights, and "Tarana-e-Hindi" (translated as "Anthem of India"), a patriotic poem—both composed for...
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    1141. Sanai was a Sunni Muslim, connected with the court of the Ghaznavid Bahram-shah who ruled 1117 – 1157. He wrote an enormous quantity of mystical verse...
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    University Press, 2009. Where Is A Thousand Tales? [Hezar Afsan Kojast?] by Bahram Beyzai, Roshangaran va Motale'ate Zanan, 2012. Wikimedia Commons has media...
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  • Zahed Gilani Khwaju Kermani Mahmoud Shabestari Najmeddin Razi Zartosht Bahram-e Pazhdo Muhammad Aufi Qazi Beiza'i Nizari Quhistani Awhadi Maraghai Humam-i...
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    contemporary world. Aghdashloo paints most of his works by gouache on canvas. Bahram Beyzai writes in a part of his article: "Why shouldn't I be rude and say...
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    dynasties, the Samanids, who claimed descent from the Sassanid general Bahram Chobin (whose story Ferdowsi recounts in one of the later sections of the...
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    The fifth masnavi was Hasht-Bihisht, which was based on legends about Bahram V, the fifteenth king of the Sasanian Empire. All these works made Khusrau...
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    Amir Khusrau (1253–1325) Saadi (Bustan / Golestān) Bahram-e-Pazhdo Pur-Baha Jami Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo Rumi Homam Tabrizi (1238–1314) Nozhat al-Majales...
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    Esfandyar, the writer of the Tarikh-e Tabarestan Muhammad Juwayni, the early historian of the Mongol era in the Tarikh-e Jahan Gushay (Ilkhanid era) Hamdollah...
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    Amir Khusrau (1253–1325) Saadi (Bustan / Golestān) Bahram-e-Pazhdo Pur-Baha Jami Zartosht Bahram e Pazhdo Rumi Homam Tabrizi (1238–1314) Nozhat al-Majales...
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    Ardashir-e-Pāpākān (The Book of the Deeds of Ardashir [son of] Papakan) 1940 Gojaste Abālish 1945 Āmadan-e shāh Bahrām-e Varjavand (Return of shah Bahram Varjavand)...
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    Khājeh Shams-od-Dīn Moḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī (Persian: خواجه شمس‌‌الدین محمد حافظ شیرازی), known by his pen name Hafez (حافظ Ḥāfeẓ lit. 'the memorizer'...
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    as Attar and Rumi. Rumi's other major work is the Dīwān-e Kabīr (Great Work) or Dīwān-e Shams-e Tabrīzī (The Works of Shams of Tabriz; دیوان شمس تبریزی)...
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    author, as in selected works, or the whole body of work of a poet. Thus Diwan-e Mir would be the Collected works of Mir Taqi Mir and so on. The first use...
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    Sa'edi Ahmad Mahmoud Jalal Al-e-Ahmad Simin Daneshvar Bozorg Alavi Ebrahim Golestan Bahman Sholevar Mahmoud Dowlatabadi Bahram Sadeghi Ghazaleh Alizadeh Bahman...
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    Urdu, but often called his language "Hindi"; one of his works was titled Ode-e-Hindi (Urdu: عود هندی, lit. 'Perfume of Hindi'). When Ghalib was 14 years...
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    Avicenna (redirect from Ebn-e Sina)
    van Donzel, E.; Lewis, B.; Pellat, Ch. & Bosworth, C. E. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IV: Iran–Kha. Leiden: E. J. Brill....
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    Bosworth, C. E.; van Donzel, E.; Heinrichs, W. P. & Lecomte, G. (eds.). The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition. Volume IX: San–Sze. Leiden: E. J. Brill...
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    The Blind Owl (1936; Persian: بوف کور, Boof-e koor, listen) is Sadegh Hedayat's magnum opus and a major literary work of 20th-century Iran. Written in...
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  • Persian, Parthian, and Greek) inscription of Shapur I at the Ka'ba-ye Zartosht in Fars, introduces another term Ērānšahr in Middle Persian, Aryānxšahr...
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    style of poetry which he popularised, called she'r-e now (شعر نو, lit. "new poetry"), also known as She'r-e Nimaa'i (شعر نیمایی, lit "Nima poetry") in his...
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    Ubayd Zakani (redirect from Obeid e Zakani)
    "ʿUbayd-I Zākānī". The Encyclopaedia of Islam, Second Edition (12 vols.). Leiden: E. J. Brill. Haidari, A. A. (1986). "A Medieval Persian Satirist". Bulletin...
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    Tehran, National Monuments Society, 1953. Šeʿr-e fārsi dar ʿahd-e Šāhroḵ yā āḡāz-e enḥeṭāṭ dar šeʿr-e farsi ("Persian Poetry under Shah Rokh: The Second...
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    both prosperity and adversity. They say that, once upon a time, the pious Zartosht made the religion, which he had received, current in the world; and till...
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  • Sassanid kings in which the Sassanians were dynastically linked to Vishtaspa, i.e. Zoroaster's patron and the legendary founder of the mythological Kayanian...
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