Written by Akbar Nemati Khayyam PortraitBirth:Date: 1048 CEPlace: Nishapur, Persia (Iran)Death:Date: 1123 CEPlace: Nishapur, Persia (Iran)Name:Abu ol-Fath ebn-Ebrahim ‘Omar ol-Khayyami of Nishapur (Khayyam means “tent maker”)
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The Book of Kings
An age of invasions ◦ About 2,200 years ago, brilliant civilizations were flourishing in Asia and in Europe. While ancient Egypt was another very important cultural pole on the edges of the Mediterranean Sea, ancient Greece was rapidly expanding: the time of the great philosophers, Socrates, Plato and his disciple Aristotle was still close, […]
Abū Hamīd bin Abū Bakr Ibrāhīm Attar of Nishabur
BiographyInformation about Attar’s life is rare. He is mentioned by only two of his contemporaries, `Awfi and Tusi. However, all sources confirm that he was from Nishapur, a major city of medieval Khorasan (now located in the northeast of Iran), and according to Awfi, he was a poet of the Seljuq period.
Baba Taher Oryan
Baba Taher Oryan, (var. Baba Tahir, in Persian: بابا طاهر) was an 11th century Persian poet and mystic. Baba Taher is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Iranian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan […]
Hakim Abol-Ghasem Ferdowsi Tousi
Ferdowsi was born in Khorasan in a village near Toos, in 940. His great epic the Shahnameh, to which he devoted most of his adult life, was originally composed for the Samanid princes of Khorasan, who were the chief instigators of the Tomb of Ferdowsi in Toos, Iran, Near Mashhad revival of Persian cultural […]
Three activists arrested
Poet Jamal Khani, teacher Farhad Vakilinia and student Naeim Najafi have been arrested in Kermanshah.
Hafiz Shirazi
“Open my grave when I am dead, and thou shalt see a cloud of smoke rising out from it; then shalt thou know that the fire still burns in my dead heart — yea, it has set my very winding-sheet alight.”
Gulistan of Saadi
INTRODUCTORYIN THE NAME OF ALLAH THE MERCIFUL THE CLEMENT Laudation to the God of majesty and glory! Obedience to him is a cause of approach and gratitude in increase of benefits. Every inhalation of the breath prolongs life and every expiration of it gladdens our nature; wherefore every breath confers two benefits and […]
In the name of GOD the Compassionate the Merciful
Sheikh Muslih-uddin Sa’di ShiraziWorld famous Persian (Iranian) 13th century poet.Bustan in Persian means flower-garden and Bustan of Sa’di is a composition of stories and maxims each representing a flower of this garden. Bustan of Sa’di is world famous due to its eloquence of style, clear language, moral guidance and counseling through the art of […]
Saadi Shirazi, Sheikh Mosleh al-Din
Saadi was born in Shiraz around 1200. He died in Shiraz around 1292. He lost his father in early childhood. With the help of his uncle, Saadi completed his early education in Shiraz. Later he was sent to study in Baghdad at the renowned Nezamiyeh College, where he acquired the traditional learning of Islam.