Iran was now unprotected, and a new power came into being. The Arabs invaded and the quality of life changed. “People fell into poverty as the greedy court imposed ever-increasing taxes. Tyranny tore apart the social contract between ruler and ruled that Zoroastrian doctrine holds to be the...
Uruguay: until December 2017,[145] article 36 of the Penal Code provided for the exoneration for murder of a spouse due to “the passion provoked by adultery”. The case of violence against women in Uruguay has been debated in the context that it is otherwise a liberal country;[147] never...
was realized in Iran with the outbreak of the Islamic Revolution in 1979. What had until then been viewed as inconceivable indeed happened. A modern Muslim ruler was brought down in a popular uprising and was replaced by an Islamic government. ...
enhancing the empire’s reputation. Born in 1394 in Sultaniyeh (modern-day Iran), he ascended to power in Samarkand in 1447. Ulugh Beg was not merely a ruler, but also a great astronomer and mathematician. His observatory in Samarkand was one of...
ruler of the Achaemenid (P ersian) Empire. At its zenith, with the capital at the palace in Persepolis, whose fabulous ruins can be seen near S hiraz, the empire stretched from the Aegean Sea in the west to India in the east, including Egypt. (It's from Cyrus the Great that ...
In 1722, the young and ambitious Afghan ruler of Kandahar, Mahmud, having built up an army of 20,000 men invaded Iran, and besieged the capital Esfahan for six months, and finally conquered it. Shah Sultan Hussain was captured and executed. The Afghan army plundered the city and carried aw...