• The Dana-i Menog-i khrat[pronunciation?], (Persian: دانای مینوی خرد) or 'opinions of the spirit of wisdom', a Middle Persian book which was written about...
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  • Zoroastrian (the 'Viraf' of the story) through the next world. the Daedestan i Menog-i Khrad, "Judgments of the Spirit of Wisdom", is an andarz text (a class...
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    Ismail I (Persian: اسماعیل یکم, romanized: Ismāʿīl; 14 July 1487 – 23 May 1524) was the founder and first shah of Safavid Iran, ruling from 1501 until...
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    progress in their art -- and that is not right. So when I write, if I keep thinking, oh I'm a woman and I must address feminine issues rather than human issues...
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    Islam (1930) Poetic books in Persian Asrar-i-Khudi (1915) Rumuz-i-Bekhudi (1917) Payam-i-Mashriq (1923) Zabur-i-Ajam (1927) Javid Nama (1932) Pas Cheh Bayed...
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    Companion. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 1-86064-983-1. OCLC 693781081. Irwin, Robert (2010). The Arabian Nights: A Companion. London: I.B. Tauris. ISBN 978-0-85771-051-2...
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    Shahnameh depicting the Parthian king Artaban facing the Sassanid king Ardashir I Ferdowsi is one of the undisputed giants of Persian literature. After Ferdowsi's...
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    Shams Tabrizi (redirect from Shams Tabriz-i)
    Shams-i Tabrīzī (Persian: شمس تبریزی) or Shams al-Din Mohammad (1185–1248) was a Persian Shafi'ite poet, who is credited as the spiritual instructor of...
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    Khrat Shabuhragan of Mani Shahrestanha-ye Eranshahr Bundahishn Menog-i Khrad Jamasp Namag Dadestan-i Denig Anthology of Zadspram Warshtmansr Zand-i Wahman...
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    "Layla va Majnun-I Nizami Ganjavi: matn-I Ilmi va intiqadi az ru-yi qadimtari nuskha-hayi khatti-I qarn-I hashtum ba zikr-i ikhtilaf-i nusakh va ma’ani...
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    Wickens 1986, p. 56. Zereškian 2018, p. 2565. Niknām 1988, pp. 1–240. "HAFEZ i. AN OVERVIEW". Encyclopædia Iranica. Retrieved 2021-04-21. Neysārī 2007, p...
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    Parvaneh. The Blue Room. Tehran: Gooya, 2003. Sepehri, Paridokht. Wherever I am, let me be! Tehran: Peykan, 2005. Sayar, Pirouz. Paintings and Drawings...
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    Avicenna (redirect from Ibn-i Sina)
    Ockham: Summa Logicae i. 14; Avicenna: Avicennae Opera Venice 1508 f87rb Avicenna, Metaphysics, I; commenting on Aristotle, Topics I.11.105a4–5 Fernando...
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    twelfth century Persian mystic" Nadia Eboo Jamal, "Surviving the Mongols", I B Tauris & Co Ltd (May 23, 2003). pg 91: "At the same time, there was an opposite...
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  • The Kār-Nāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pāpagān (Book of the Deeds of Ardeshir, Son of Papag) (New Persian: کارنامهٔ اردشیر بابکان), is a short Middle Persian prose...
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    style. Both Mirza Ghalib and Iqbal-i Lahori were influenced by him. His books include Tilism-i Hairat (طلسم حيرت), Tur i Ma'rifat (طور معرفت), Chahār Unsur...
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    the first edition (no year [c. 1900], "from the fine copy owned by Charles Dana Burrage" [1857–1926]). Davis, Dick. "FitzGerald, Edward". Encyclopædia Iranica...
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    remembered as a poet, and her writings were collected posthumously as Diwan-i-Makhfi (Persian: ديوانِ مخفى) - "Complete (Poetical) Works of Makhfi". Zeb-un-Nissa...
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    being the Kar-Namag i Ardashir i Pabagan, which was originally written during the late Sassanid era and gave accounts of how Ardashir I came to power which...
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    three books is attributed by the colophons to 9th-century priest Adurfarnbag-i Farrokhzadan, as identified in the last chapter of book 3. Of these three...
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    mausoleum on a small hill in the present-day village of Hadrat-i Sayyid (also called Hadrat-i Sa'id), on the eastern side of the Koksha Valley in present-day...
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    "Abr-i-Guhar Baar" : How canst Thou burn with a fire-mark in Hell a heart that finds no rest even in a garden? And, in Paradise, it is true that I shall...
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    kingdom's finest city. "With the blows of my lustrous sword", Timur complained, "I have subjugated most of the habitable globe... to embellish Samarkand and...
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    (now Gʻijduvon District). His mother Zevar came from the village of Mahalla-i Bālā of Shofirkon tuman (now Bukhara Region of the Republic of Uzbekistan)...
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  • Khrat Shabuhragan of Mani Shahrestanha-ye Eranshahr Bundahishn Menog-i Khrad Jamasp Namag Dadestan-i Denig Anthology of Zadspram Warshtmansr Zand-i Wahman...
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    Turk bud va man Tajik Hardu doshtim kheshii nazdik Though he was a Turk, and I am Tajik, We were close to each other. Afterward, he went to Samarkand, the...
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    stated: Bread and Alley was my first experience in cinema and I must say a very difficult one. I had to work with a very young child, a dog, and an unprofessional...
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    the yearbook of Maktab-i tashayyu’, 1339 (A.H. Solar) Risalah dar hukumat-i islami, (Treatise on Islamic Government). Hashiyah-i kifayah (Glosses upon...
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    another poem: Attar travelled through all the seven cities of love While I am only at the bend of the first alley.. Attar was probably the son of a prosperous...
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    Delhi. Khusrau wrote that: I tied the belt of service on my waist and put on the cap of companionship for another five years. I imparted lustre to the water...
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