11 شعبان 1434 - Thursday, June 20, 2013

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- Water Management in Ancient Persia (Part 2)
- Water Management in Ancient Persia (Part 2)
- Water Management in Ancient Persia (Part 1)
- Ancient Persians were well known for the ways they procured and supplied water. Water management in a geographical location where it cannot be found abundantly all year round is a challenge. It represents the ...
- Turquoise: An auspicious gemstone
- The charming shades of turquoise have delighted humans for centuries. The oldest turquoise mines with an antiquity of over 5,500 years are located in Neishabour, Khorasan Razavi province. Turquoise cutting and polishing have been ...
- Kariz: Ancient Water System (part 2)
- Kariz routes need to be regularly cleaned and maintained: They are subject to damage and destruction by flash floods. To prevent shafts from being filled with sand, they are covered by stone slabs or other objects. The people involved in ...
- Kariz: Ancient Water System (part 1)
- Kariz (also known as qanat) is an ancient water supply system that can be described as one of the biggest contributions made by Iranians to hydraulics. This system must have been started at least 5,000 years ago in Iran. The system is usually found in ...
- Bookmaking in Iran (Part 2)
- Cloud collar motifs depicted on books are attributed to this period. Sealing different patterns gained popularity among the bookmakers of Shiraz. Since the early years of the 14th century, many of the artistic media and ...
- Bookmaking in Iran (Part 1)
- Manuscripts were made by Iranians during the Sassanian rule. Some of the books bound around the 8th and 9th centuries AD were found in China’s Turkistan region. After the Chinese invented paper, it was ...
- The Iranian Language Family: New Iranian Languages (part 3)
- Pashto is another major New Iranian language of the Eastern branch whose speakers live mainly in ...
- The Iranian Language Family: New Iranian Languages (part 2)
- In its most important period, from 15th to 19th century AD, Persian was the administrative language of ...
- The Iranian Language Family: New Iranian Languages (part 1)
- This period is marked by the rise of Islam in the former Sasanian lands and influence of ...
- The Iranian Language Family: Middle Iranian Languages (part 2)
- Sogdian, among the less dominants Middle Iranian languages, was surely the most ...
- The Iranian Language Family: Middle Iranian Languages (part 1)
- These include many languages which were spoken from the borders of China to ...
- The Iranian Language Family: Old Iranian Languages (part 2)
- Avestan is often divided into two (or sometimes three) stages, based on the philological study of ...
- The Iranian Language Family: Old Iranian Languages (part 1)
- The Iranian Language Family is part of the Indo-Iranian (or Aryan[1] ) language group, itself the ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 6)
- Historical facts are self-evident and require ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 5)
- The term Persian Gulf is used in ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 4)
- Some of the latest UN Documents related to ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 3)
- Apart from resorting to these old ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 2)
- Again reports on 24 August indicated that Iranian ...
- History of abu musa and the tunbs (part 1)
- The British Governments announcement in ...
- Three Persian Gulf islands to form a new province
- Three Persian Gulf islands of Abu Musa and the ...
- The Importance of National Persian Gulf Day
- The National Persian Gulf Day is a very important day for ...
- Anniversary of National Day of Persian Gulf
- Anniversary of Portuguese withdrawal from Persian Gulf was ...
- The Arabian Gulf Google Bomb
- The most successful Google bomb on the internet to ...
- National Persian Gulf Day
- Iran has designated April 30th as National Persian Gulf ...
- History of the Persian Gulf
- The Persian Gulf is a unique geographical phenomenon ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE IRANIAN CALENDAR (part 3)
- Persian astronomer and mathematician Molla Mozaffar ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE IRANIAN CALENDAR (part 2)
- In 471/1079, Saljuq ruler Jalal-al-Dow...
- NOWRUZ IN THE IRANIAN CALENDAR (part 1)
- The day Hormoz (the first day of any Persian month) of the ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 7)
- Muslim Indian immigrants took Nowruz to ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 6)
- In other lands. Nowruz has been celebrated with ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 5)
- In rural areas, many people still greet Nowruz by ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 4)
- Nader Shah Afshar (r. 1736-47) always celebrated Nowruz by ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 3)
- Scholars wrote in Persian and Arabic on the history ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 2)
- Ebn Faqih (p. 165) specifies that “this ancient custom is ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 1)
- The Islamic conquest altered many Iranian traditions ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 17)
- The Iranis were meantime sending bright boys from ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 16)
- Among elder Parsis in Navsari there was a ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 15)
- The Parsis have, historically, no secular observance of ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 14)
- Havzoru being over, the “seven seeds” were no ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 13)
- Names are, however, among the few ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 12)
- Two striking characteristics of Nowruz ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 11)
- Biruni begins (p. 215) by dealing briefly with the ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 10)
- There exists a small and difficult ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 9)
- The year chosen for implementing the reform was ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 8)
- The earliest text of unquestionably Sasanian date with ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 7)
- A difficulty for accepting this straightforwardly as a ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 6)
- It and the other calendars all have month names, which ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 5)
- Given the obvious scale of the traditionalists’ private ...
- NOWRUZ IN THE PRE-ISLAMIC PERIOD (part 4)
- What mattered, however, for the introduction of ...