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Khwārizmī (Khorasan)

Khwārizmī (Khorasan)

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Muḥammad ibn Mūsā al-Khwārizmī, the famous mathematician, astronomer, geographer, and historian, was born in 185 AH. There is no information in historic texts about his childhood and adolescent, or when he and his family entered Baghdad. The era...
Mir Damad

Mir Damad

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Mir Mohammad Baqer Esterabadi, or Asterabadi, known also as Mir Damad, was one of the philosophers, scholars, jurists, and prominent leaders of Imamiyah during Abbas the Great (Safavid dynasty). He was born in a scholar family in 969 AH, and on his...
Kamal-ol-Molk (Isfahan)

Kamal-ol-Molk (Isfahan)

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Mirza Mohammad Ghaffari, known as Kamal-ol-Molk, the famous Iranian painter, was born in Kashan about 1270 AH. He spent his childhood in his home town and after finishing his primary education, he moved to Tehran at the age of 15. He entered the school...
Kayhan Kalhor (Kermanshah)

Kayhan Kalhor (Kermanshah)

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Kayhan Kalhor is born on Azar 3, 1342 SH in Eslamabad-e-Gharb, Kermanshah Province. He is an Iranian Kamancheh and also Setar, Tanbur, and Shah Kaman player, and composer. He was a professional in playing music by the age of thirteen, and he immigrated...
Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (Tehran)

Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda (Tehran)

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Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda was born in 1285 SH in Ghasem Ali Khan alley located in Sangelaj district. He is one of the great founders of modern prose style and famous scholars. He finished his education in Tehran and then, he traveled to Europe. After...
Hafez (Fars)

Hafez (Fars)

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Khwāja Shams-ud-Dīn Muḥammad Ḥāfeẓ-e Shīrāzī, son of Bahaʾ-al-Din, is the most famous poet and Sufi in the 8th century and one of the forth greatest Persian poets in the world. His father was a merchant, who immigrated from Isfahan to Shiraz during the...
Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is'haq Ardabili (Ardabil)

Sheikh Safi-ad-din Is’haq Ardabili (Ardabil)

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The ancestor of Safavid kings, Sheikh Safi-ad-din Ardabili, was born in 650 AH in Ardabil. Being the 8th generation of Firuz-Shah Zarrin-Kolah, he was one of Sufi elders of the Ilkhanate dynasty. He has composed poems in Azeri and he was eponym of the...
Qeysar Aminpour (Khuzestan)

Qeysar Aminpour (Khuzestan)

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Qeysar Aminpour is one of the most influential poets of the post-Iranian Revolution period. He has written poems about Iran-Iraq War, as well as poems in classic and modern style. Some believe that he shifted from poems about the war to poems about...
Omar Khayyam (Razavi Khorasan)

Omar Khayyam (Razavi Khorasan)

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Hojjat-ol-Hagh, Omar ibn Ibrahim Khayyami Nisaburi, known as Khayyam, is one of the Persian prominent scientists and cultural characters. He was a philosopher, mathematician, inventor, astronomer, scholar, faqīh (Islamic jurist), historian, and...
Parvin Etesami (East Azerbaijan)

Parvin E’tesami (East Azerbaijan)

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Among the contemporary poets, there were not so many who can penetrate deeply into the hearts and also, there was as a few who was popular as she was. Her Diwan was published many times during a short period and it was appreciated every time. Parvin...
Khāqānī (East Azerbaijan)

Khāqānī (East Azerbaijan)

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Hassān’l-Aʿjam Afzāl al-dīn Badil ibn Ali Khāqānī Haqaiʿqi Shirvani was born in 520 AH in Tabriz. His father was a carpenter and Khaqani’s mother was originally a slave-girl of Nestorian Christian faith who has been taken from Rome to...
Mahmud Farshchian of Isfahan

Mahmud Farshchian of Isfahan

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Mahmud Farshchian was born in 1308 AH in the city of Isfahan. His father, Haj Gholamreza Farshchian, was the representative of Carpet Company of Isfahan and dealt with carpets. The acquaintance with this original handicraft had a major role in the...