Kourosh

http://www.senmerv.com/images/cyrus.jpg
http://persia.org/Images/Iran/Shiraz/persepolis2.gif
http://www.artarena.force9.co.uk/Iran/cyrustmb.jpg

Dariush
http://home.att.net/~aturpat/images/darius.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/history/images/naqshe_rostam660.jpg
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/c/c2/180px-Naqsh-e-rostam.jpg
http://www.crystalinks.com/dariustomb.gif

Ferdowsi

http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/b/bf/180px-Ferdowsi.jpg
http://bullard.esc.cam.ac.uk/~jh468/photos/iran%2010.04/ferdowsi%20tomb%20at%20tus.JPG
http://www.jozan.net/2004/images/IranRugCo/Ferdowsi%20Park.jpg
http://uk.geocities.com/iranwal/Ferdowsi.JPG

Khayyam

http://www.thedailyinspiration.com/authors/images/Khayyam.jpg
http://www.w-volk.de/museum/khayam01.jpg
http://www.dusharm.com/images/stories/khayyam/khayyam_tomb.jpg
http://www.bestirantravel.com/images/sights/meshad/khayamtomb.jpg

Hafez
http://www.persepolis.com/hafez/hafez.jpg
http://www.irpost.com/staticpages/NewStamps/images/Cart-Hafez.jpg
http://www.aprcwsis05.ir/images/gallery/Hafez%20TombL.jpg
http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/hafez/images/hafez_tomb.jpg
http://home.earthlink.net/~worldtree/images/Brett/Hafez%20tomb%20in%20Shiraz,Iran.jpg
http://samchuiphotos.com/IranUAE2004Trip/sShiraz15.jpg

Saadi
http://persia.org/Images/Iran/Shiraz/shiraz1.gif
http://www.iranchamber.com/literature/saadi/images/saadi_tomb.jpg
http://www.persianiran.com/images/tourism/saadi_tomb.jpg
http://www.mideasttravelling.net/iran/shiraz/images/the_tomb_of_saadi.jpg

thanks :)

You're welcome :)

There are many other Iranian Greats. Let's post pics of them too!

Khayyam & Ferdowsi r my faves oh and Dariush and Korosh but theyr different, great kings shouldnt be compaired to poets (tho khayyam wasnt only a poet... ah u kno what i mean)

Oh btw im gonna sound stupid but jus wanna make sure... how do u pronounce Xerxes??? :cheers:

I think you pronounce it as Zerkzees...

Is saying Khashayarshah that difficult??? lol

I think you pronounce it as Zerkzees...

Is saying Khashayarshah that difficult??? lol
Yep :tongue2:

Abu Abdullah Muhammad bin Musa al-Khwarizmi

http://hebert.kitp.ucsb.edu/studio/al-khwarizmi.jpg

http://www.kennislink.nl/upload/128083_962_1108401583704-Al-Khwarizmi.jpg

http://www.mathsisgoodforyou.com/images/people/alkhwarizmi.jpg

He was born in the Khorasarn Province and moved to Baghdad at a young age. He made major contributions to the fields of algebra, trigonometry, astronomy/astrology, geography and cartography.

He is considered to be the father of Algebra and Algorythm.

For those who are more interested in learning about him, please refer to trustworthy and reputable encyclopedias and books.

I am not sure if you are aware, but ANYONE, including you and I can make edits to encyclopedia wikipedia online. Some sources refer to Khwarizmi as Arab even though his last name is Persian and was born in Khorasan, but moved to Baghdad because that was the center of science at the time. In addition, Baghdad, at that time, was very close to the ex-capital of the Sassanid Empire at Ctesphon and had for the previous millenia been a part of the Persian Empire.

That's mean, Panj. Don't tell the truth. :D

the truth can hurt :D

lol.. u'd be surprised as to how many sources say he is Arab. It's crazy. When did people from Khorasan become ARAB??? LOL

Many say "Islamic Scientist" and I guess that is accurate if he was Muslim. But many of those articles fail to mention he was Persian.

Edit

Nader Shah

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/de/thumb/8/81/Nadir_shah_von_persien.jpg/140px-Nadir_shah_von_persien.jpg

http://www.emiliosalgari.it/india/montagna_di_luce/nadir_shah.jpg

http://www.aprcwsis05.ir/images/gallery/Nadir%20ShahL.jpg

http://bss.sfsu.edu/kemiller/photos/week1/slides/shelled%20tomb%20of%20King%20Nadir%20Shah.JPG

http://iranmiras.ir/fr_site/history/afsharieh/Image-100.jpg

http://www.arash.de/gesch/bild/Nadir.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadir_Shah

Nadir Shah (Nadir Qoli Beg, also Tahmasp-Qoli Khan) (October 22, 1688 - June, 1747) ruled as Shah of Iran (1736–47) and was the founder of the short-lived Afsharid dynasty. Some historians have described him, because of his military genius, as the Napoleon of Persia or the Second Alexander. He created a great Iranian Empire with boundaries from the Indus River to the Caucasus Mountains (north) and India (east). Nadir Shah was probably the last great Asian military conqueror. But Nadir was also responsible for the mass murder of hundreds of thousands of civilians, especially non-Muslims, during his military campaigns.

He was born in the Dastgerd region of Khorasan, a province of Iran. His father, a poor peasant, died while Nadir was still a child. Nadir and his mother were carried off as slaves by marauding Uzbeg tribesmen, but Nadir managed to escape. He joined a band of brigands while still a boy and eventually advanced to become their leader. Later he found refuge with the Turkic Afshar tribe, where, under the patronage of Afshar chieftains, he rose through the ranks to be a powerful military leader.

When in 1719 the Afghans invaded Persia, Nadir supported the Safavid ruler Tahmasp II -- in deference to whom he had named himself Tahmasp Qoli (Slave of Tahmasp)-- with a force of 5,000 soldiers against the Afghan usurper Mahmud Ghilzay. Nadir defeated the Afghans in the Battle of Damghan, 1729. He had driven out the Afghans, who were still occupying Persia, by 1730. In 1729 Tahmasp II was proclaimed shah in Isfahan. While Nadir was in Khorasan, putting down the revolt, Tahmasp II moved in person with an army against the Ottoman Empire. He was, however, heavily defeated. He made peace and Georgia and Armenia were lost. Nadir returned to Isfahan, exiled Tahmasp II to Khorasan, deposed him and placed his infant eight month old son Abbas III on the throne, declaring himself regent. In 1736, after Abbas III died, Nadir ascended to the throne himself, as Shah.

Nadir then turned west against the Ottomans, defeating them in several battles. In the siege of Baghdad in 1733 he was defeated behind the walls of the city. Nadir, however, came back with a larger army and the Ottomans were forced to made a peace treaty. Nadir was given the cities on the west of Aras River in addition to Karbala and Basra in southern Iraq. With this victory, he recovered all the land lost to the Ottomans before the Afghan invasion.

In 1738, Nadir Shah conquered Kandahar. In the same year he occupied Ghazni, Kabul and Lahore. He continued on to India, crossing the river Indus before the end of year. He defeated the great Mughal army of Mohammad Shah at the Battle of Karnal, February 24, 1739. After victory, Nadir captured Mohammad Shah and entered with him into Delhi where Nadir had Delhi plundered, in the process massacring 30,000 of its people.

Nadir returned home with vast treasures, including the Peacock Throne, which thereafter served as a symbol of Persian imperial might, and, among a trove of other fabulous jewels, the famous Koh-i-Noor diamond. The Persian troops left Delhi at the beginning of May 1739, taking with them several thousand Indian girls (both Hindu and Muslim) and a large number of boys as slaves. Nadir's soldiers also took with them thousands of elephants, horses and camels, loaded with the booty they had collected. The plunder seized from India was so rich that Nadir stopped taxation in Iran for a period of three years, following his triumphant return.

In 1740 Nadir had Tahmasp II and his two infant sons put to death. After India, Nadir attacked the Uzbeks of Transoxania. Nadir also started to build a powerful Persian navy. He captured Bahrain from the Arabs. In 1743 he conquered Oman and its main capital, Muscat.

In 1741, after an assassination attempt on him failed, Nadir suspected his oldest son Reza Quli Mirza as being responsible for the conspiracy and had him blinded. Soon afterwards, Nadir started executing the nobles who had witnessed his son's blinding. In his last years, Nadir became increasingly paranoid, ordering the assassination of large numbers of supposed enemies.

In 1743 Nadir started another war against the Ottoman Empire. It ended with a peace treaty in 1746, by which treaty the Ottomans agreed to let Nadir occupy Najaf.

Nadir was assassinated in 1747, in Gulnabad, where he was resting with his army and family returning from India. It is believed that his assassination was planned by Ahmad Shah Durani who was his general at the time and later became the Afghan emperor. Nadir was surprised in his sleep by Salah Bey, captain of the guards, and cut with a sword.

Nadir had been married four times; he had 5 sons and 15 grandsons. He also had 33 women in his harem. During Nadir Shah's brief reign a 40,000-man army was created, and the boundaries of his empire extended to the greatest extent in Iran's history since the days of the Sassanids.

After his death, he was succeeded by his nephew Adil Shah ("righteous king") who was deposed within a year. During the struggle between Adil Shah, his brother Ibrahim Khan and Nadir's grandson Shah Rukh almost all provincial governors declared independence, established their own states, and the entire Empire of Nadir Shah fell into anarchy. Finally, Karim Khan founded the Zand dynasty and became ruler of Iran by 1760, while Ahmad Shah Durrani had already proclaimed independence in the east, marking the foundation of modern Afghanistan.

In 1768, Christian VII of Denmark commissioned Sir William Jones to translate a Persian language biography of Nadir Shah into French. It was published in 1770 as Histoire de Nadir Chah, and subsequently translated into English, becoming the vehicle by which Nadir Shah became known to the reading public in the West.

Nader Shah was after Dariush and Cyrus the best king of iran in my opinion.

There have been many great Kings. During the Sassanian, Anoushiravan was also a great king of Iran. During the last century, Reza Shah was also great; so was Mohammad Reza shah.

What is clear, however, is that we had many more great kings prior to Arab invasion of Iran than after. The main reason for this is that many of the kings after the Arab invasion were not Iranian, and therefore did not care too much about Iran.

What's with that tomb? a bit disgraceful. :|

^^ yep thing is like dynasties have lasted shorter time than they did pre-islamic.... there have been 12 dynasties in what the last 1500 years.... which is double the amount pre islamic that spaned over wha 3000 years :S... needless to say islamic conquest has turned Iran very eratic in leadership... as we all know ;)

What's with that tomb? a bit disgraceful. :|

I am pretty sure that ruin is no longer his tomb. Rather, it is the picture with the horse on top. I guess that's why no one has really taken care of that other one.

Nima Yushij


SOURCE: http://www.art-arena.com/nima.htm

....Among the poets who continued their experiments towards a radical modernization of Persian poetry, it was Nima Yushij (1896-1959) who took revolutionary measures to establish a new perspective in Persian poetry. He began writing poetry when he was a high school student, and the person who encouraged him by reading his poems and helping him to improve his versification, was one of his teachers, Nezam Vafa (1883-1960), himself a lyric poet who wrote simple love poems in the classical style, mingled with pieces of romantic poetical prose. Until the age of twelve Nima Yushij had lived in Yush, a village in the northern province of Mazandaran, near the Caspian Sea, where his father was a farmer. In his speech to the First Congress of Iranian Writers, 1946, in Tehran, Nima Yushij said: "My first years of life were spent among the shepherds and horse-herders who, in their seasonal movements from one grassland to another, every evening sat round the fire on the Mountainside for long hours. From my childhood years I remember nothing but savage fights, and other things related to a nomadic life, and the simple amusements of those people in an atmosphere of monotony and ignorance. I learned reading and writing from the Akhund [preacher and teacher] of the village where I was born. He used to run after me through the alleyways and, catching me, tied my thin feet to rough, thorny trees and beat me with long canes. He had made a scroll by pasting together some letters which peasants had written to their relatives, and he ordered me to learn the whole scroll by heart."

Read on (http://www.art-arena.com/nima.htm)


http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/Nima-Yushij-i.jpg

Birth place/Tomb:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/mar/Nima-Yushij-tomb.jpg

damet garm

beatiful thread

they should renovate Nader shahs tomb in my opinion...

This is Nader Shahs tomb... in Mashad I believe

http://www.salamiran.org/Magazine/BackIssues/February99/images/Theme_08.jpg

http://www.farsinet.com/mashhad/images/nader_shah.jpg

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/fb/Nadershahtomb.jpg

It has a museum too

http://www.farsinet.com/mashhad/nader_shah.html

http://www.nndb.com/people/631/000097340/avicenna-2-sized.jpg

http://clendening.kumc.edu/dc/pc/Avicenna.jpg


http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Diagrams/Avicenna_Tomb.jpeg

http://www.iranmania.com/travel/images/ebn_sina.jpg

http://www.iranchamber.com/cities/hamadan/images/ibnali_sina.jpg

Is it okay if this becomes combined with the Historic thread?

The role of Persia (Iran) in history is highly significant; In fact, the German philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel considered the ancient Persians to be the first historic people and stated thus: "In Persia first arises that light which shines itself and illuminates what is around...The principle of development begins with the history of Persia; this constitutes therefore the beginning of history".

You guys forgot Rumi..or is he afghani?

He was from what you would now call an Afghani village...however at his period in time Afghanistan was not a sovereign state. It was still part of Iran....he was Iranian...not Turk or otherwise.
Will try and find some stuff to post, this thread hasn't been that active for awhile.