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  • one millennium B.C.E., the equally ancient Persian tradition of Musiqi-e assil ... melodic systems were fused with ideas from Persian music, particularly through ...
    31 KB (4,635 words) - 15:49, 25 January 2023
  • Euphrates. Some scholars locate it in the Persian Gulf; others seek a location ... that Eden was located somewhere near the Persian Gulf. This location was ...
    19 KB (3,242 words) - 04:30, 18 April 2024
  • of the Zand dynasty, and had reasserted Persian sovereignty over the former ... with strongholds in northern Iran into a Persian dynasty with all the trappings ...
    27 KB (4,140 words) - 03:59, 7 December 2022
  • It is in principle the representation of language, rather than images of thought ... beyond those carried out by spoken language. First invented by the early ...
    22 KB (3,308 words) - 14:05, 20 May 2023
  • Nasiruddin Humayun (Persian: نصيرالدين همايون) (March ... Shah Suri, and regained them, only with Persian aid, ten years later. Humayun ...
    33 KB (5,251 words) - 21:14, 11 January 2023
  • to recite to him the great epic poems of Persian history. He held French ... "The destiny of this family of high Persian nobility, descended from ...
    29 KB (4,230 words) - 22:56, 30 November 2022
  • of 244, the Persians counter-attacked. Persian sources claim that a battle ... The Roman eastern frontier and the Persian Wars. London, UK: Routledge ...
    15 KB (2,338 words) - 04:18, 24 May 2024
  • than the older atashkada, a Classical Persian language term that together with ... Avesta proper, nor is there any old Persian language word for one. Moreover ...
    25 KB (4,046 words) - 19:51, 26 March 2024
  • (Persian) (the Arm), * sux-Latn|Gula (Euphratean) * Ied Algeuze (Orion's Hand) * cop-Latn|Klaria (Coptic) (an Armlet) * Yedelgeuse ...
    16 KB (2,302 words) - 17:58, 29 September 2023
  • al-Husayn ibn ‘Abd Alla-h ibn Si-na- (Persian language|Persian Abu Ali Sinaابوعلى سينا or arabisized: أبو علي الحسين بن ...
    23 KB (3,644 words) - 07:16, 23 August 2023
  • to frighten the enemy or to celebrate. The Persian word is sanj or senj ( ... ), but the Shahnameh does not claim these to be Persian in origin ...
    15 KB (2,396 words) - 20:32, 28 December 2023
  • Aga Khan (Persian: آغا خان ) is the hereditary title of the ... title Agha with the Turkic, Mongolian and Persian/Pashto polyvalent title ...
    18 KB (2,724 words) - 06:09, 16 June 2023
  • In the Persian period (538-332 B.C.E.), Byblos was the fourth of four ... and the town grew rapidly. Although a Persian colony is known to have ...
    14 KB (1,996 words) - 19:08, 24 November 2023
  • Geographically, the Arab world is defined as extending from the Persian ... speak one of the early forms of Arabic language or its predecessors, however ...
    32 KB (4,654 words) - 20:18, 11 August 2023
  • coast are descended from Arab and Persian Muslim traders who settled ... eastward exodus, the Hui used the Arab, Persian and Han languages. Gradually ...
    26 KB (3,824 words) - 15:11, 9 February 2024
  • grave of humanity. However, with the influence of Persian thought and the passing of time, the notion of "hell" crept into Jewish tradition ...
    8 KB (1,334 words) - 06:33, 18 April 2024
  • side from the Irtish and the Volga to the Persian Gulf, and on the other from ... called Sharaf ud-Din, author of the Persian Zafarnāma (Persian ظفرنامه ...
    24 KB (3,811 words) - 23:37, 30 April 2023
  • resulted in a new word, assassin, in European language The name "assassin ... that drug [hashish] in connection with the Persian Assassins--especially in ...
    15 KB (2,338 words) - 22:24, 8 November 2021
  • some 30,000 in each case, while the Persian troops at al-Qadisiyah numbered ... Farisi and az-Zajjaj. All of whom were of Persian descent. They were brought ...
    28 KB (4,452 words) - 17:00, 10 February 2024
  • Kābul (Persian: کابل, IPA: [kɑː'bʊl]) is the capital ... #039;s history, invaders included the Persian Empire, Alexander the Great ...
    23 KB (3,382 words) - 16:50, 14 May 2024

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