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"Book of Kings" (in PersianShah-nameh) when he wrote about the mythical period of the Iranian history. Mithraism reached its peak in this period and eventually spread from Iran to the Roman Empire. There are striking similarities between rituals of Mithraism and Varzesh-e Pahlavani. Even ...
of themunazaragenre—staged disputations between opposing characters or concepts. The major Persian national epic, theShah-nama,the Book of Kings, was written by Firdawsi to celebrate the mythic pre-Islamic history of Iran, in a style that attempted to exclude usages and expressions of Arabic ...
An armlet given to the Pahlavan of the nation by the Shah on the first day of the Iranian new year (March 21st) as a recognition of his Pahlavani championship. Ferdowsi The greatest Iranian mythical poet/historian and the author of the epic work Shah-nameh, the Book of Kings. Gol Rizan...
ed snakes; Praising the snake was rooted in their belief in primordial magic. The image of the snake on the lids of dishes and pots granted protection against bad intent and evil forces. The figure of the snake was also carved on the gates, altars, and the scepter of Elamite kings....
Zia-Ebrahimi’s study centers on two Iranian intellectuals, Akhundzadeh and Kermani, and meticulously illustrates their incorporation of European racial theories within the Iranian context. His analysis demonstrates how influential works like Pedro Teixera’s “Kings of Persia,” John Malcolm’s “Histo...
book [from his bookOver het woord Zarathustra(About the Word Zarathustra), p. 16, (1867)] as stating, "the Bactrian (i.e. Avestan) is so (greatly) related to the Old-Indian language (Vedic), and in particular, that of the Vedas, that without exaggeration it can be called a ...
Abu Raihan Mohammad Ibn Ahmad Biruni was one of the well-known figures associated with the court of King Mahmoud Ghaznavid, who was one of the famous Muslim kings of the 11th century A.D. Biruni was a versatile scholar and scientist who had equal facility in physics, metaphysics, mathematics...
The Era of Nabonassar doesn't cover much of Mesopotamian history, but it does cover the history of the calendar that we know about; and Ptolemy's "Canon of Kings," a list of rulers from Nabonassar to the Roman Emperor Antoninus Pius, was absolutely fundamental for ancient chronology -- ...
kings of different dynasties such as the Seljuq Turks, the Safavids, Nadir Shah, and the Qajars also had splendorous thrones in their court, but the most splendorous of all these thrones was the Peacock Throne of Nadir Shah, that was acquired by him during his Indian campaign of 1739. ...