Let's also not forget the numerous Islamic scholars:


Imam Bukhari - from Bukhara (now in modern day Uzbekistan) compiler of the most comprehensive hadeeth collection in Islam.  Scholars are unanimous that Imam Bukhari's Sahih al-Bukhari is the most authentic collection of hadeeths in the world. 

Imam Muslim an Nishapuri - after Imam Bukhari, Imam Muslim's hadeeth collections is the most authetic.  Imam Muslim was born in Nishapur.

Imam Abu Daud as Sijistani - His Sunan Abu Duad hadeeth collection is read throughout the world.  Clearly one of the most influencial scholars. 

Imam Tirmidhi - born in Tirmiz (town located in the Afghan-Uzbek border) Imam Tirmidhi was a student of Imam Bukhari and also compiled an enormous collection of hadeeth. 

Imam Nisa'i - born in Nisa, Khurasaan, he was another major compiler of hadeeth. 

Imam al-Bayhaqi - born near Nishapur, Imam al-Bayhaqi was one of the greatest scholars of fiqh.

Imam al-Hakim - born in Nishapur, one of the greatest muhadeeth in history, up till even today, one will find many hadeeths with the phrase "deemed authentic by Al-Hakim."

Imam al-Khuzaima - born in Nishapur, he was one of the greatest scholars of Khursan authoring over 140 books.

Imam Tabarani - a great muhadeeth, who lived in Esfahan.

Imam Abu Nu'aim al Esfahani - wrote several commentaries on hadeeth books and is well known muhadeeth.

Imam Abu Hanifa - probably one of the most influencial Muslims in history.  The school of thought that is named after him, is the largest in the world.   Although Imam Abu Hanifa was born in modern day Iraq, his father was from Kabul (modern day Afghanistan).

May Allah have mercy on them all. 



Edited by Ave1 - 17-Jun-2006 at 22:50

Omid Kordestani

By DONNY DEUTSCH

Posted Sunday, Apr. 30, 2006
Vignette StoryServer 5.0 Thu May 04 23:29:38 2006 What Apple did for computers in 1984, Google is doing for advertising and business in the 21st century. How cool is a company that mastered Internet search and then drove well past it?

Google, by any measure, defined a new way of looking at so many industries. It personified and refined search. It brought real, tangible metrics to the advertising and search businesses. It continually evolves its product offerings to advertisers and consumers�often identifying the need beforehand. And it has achieved the holy grail by becoming a verb that defines a category, a la Xerox in the 1970s and FedEx in the '90s. What is truly amazing is that all these things are probably just appetizers before the main course.

Behind the scenes in Google's relentless thirst for more is Omid Kordestani, 42, its senior vice president for global sales and business development. He joined the company a year after it was established in 1998 as its "business founder" and helped build the brand into a household name in a way that excites Google's partners and confounds everyone else. Kordestani isn't as well known as Google founders Sergey Brin and Larry Page or even company CEO Eric Schmidt. But he has been the main brains behind Google's innovative and aggressive push to reach deals with a multitude of partners and make big money through advertising. Kordestani's deal in 1999 to provide search results to Netscape users and a similar partnership with Yahoo! the following year were just the beginning. His successful negotiations with AOL in 2002 yielded a watershed deal in the company's meteoric growth. Today he continues to drive the big ad deals.

In a post-dot-bomb society, you gotta love that Kordestani and the rest of the Google team didn't follow the folly of so many others and succumb to an IPO right away. They focused instead on the brand essence of Google. Of course, bringing the company to profitability in record time and generating more than $6 billion in revenue in 2005 probably didn't hurt either. Maybe that's why when Google finally did go public in late 2004, it blew the doors off everything else, and maybe that's a reason its stock�now at about $420 a share�may still hit $500. Wow.

MORTEZA AVINI

This man filmed the Iran Iraq. He was on the front lines all the time and was able to survive. He documented the war. Sadly, at the end of the war, he went back to look at the battle fields one more time, he stepped on a land mine and died. may he rest in peace.

the website and his footage of the war: http://mortezaavini.com/Farsi/

 

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Ehsan Yarshater

Encyclopedia Iranica starter

has been working on the project for over 30 years! amazing person.

Famous Zoroastrians

Main article: List of Zoroastrians

Famous Parsis include the founder of Indian Civil Aviation and legendary industrialist J. R. D. Tata, Phirozeshah Mehta, Dadabhai Naoroji, Bhikaiji Cama, symphonic conductor Zubin Mehta, nuclear scientist Homi J. Bhabha, the similarly-named philosopher Homi K. Bhabha, the first field marshall of India Sam Manekshaw, screenwiter Sooni Taraporevala (of the films Salaam Bombay and Mississippi Masala, both directed by Mira Nair, as well as author of a photography book on the Parsi community entitled Parsis: The Zoroastrians of India: a Photographic Journey), authors Rohinton Mistry, and Bapsi Sidhwa. Indian industrial families Tata family, Godrej family and Wadia family.

The late Freddie Mercury, the frontman of the group Queen, was also a Parsi, and his family gave him a traditional Parsi Zoroastrian funeral after he died on 24 November 1991. Famous Zoroastrians from the more recently arrived Irani community include legendary Bollywood director Ardeshir Irani, the actress Aruna Irani, the cricketer Ronnie Irani, the famous Indian spiritual master Meher Baba and the actress Perizaad Zorabian.

One of the most famous Iranian Zoroastrian is Dr. Farhang Mehr, former deputy prime minister of Iran, Boston University professor emeritus, longtime activist for religious freedom, and subject of the biography "Triumph Over Discrimination" by another Zoroastrian (of Parsi and Haitian descent), Lylah M. Alphonse.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zoroastrianism#Famous_Zoroastri ans

 

But you used plural form, like "past posts".

Why didn't you mention it in that thread? Good memory though. In my defense, you were claiming a masterpiece which is the result of a collaborative work of so many artists from many countries, as Persian. I think someone should say something, as this is a forum.

 

Originally posted by barbar Originally posted by barbar   I think the problem with some Iranian or Iranic guys here is mixing up the Iranian, Iranic, past and present.  I just wonder, if the term Iranian is designated to the nationality, then What the Tajik greatmen should have to do something with you? If Iranic( which is based on language) is considered here, then what the greatmen who spoke other than iranic should have to do with you? As for the present and past, Soghdians were Iranic, but most of them had become Turkic. There are plenty of examples like this, aren't there? Please be clear, when you claim something or someone to be part of your culture or history, then continue your logical discussions.     This is my first post in this thread. Is it considered to be trolling and in uncilivised way?  Just send PM to the moderators, I'd be happy to accept warning.

yes it is.

Ala'iddin Ata-ul-Mulk Juvayni (1226 - 1283) was a Persian historian who wrote the famous Tarikh-i-Jehan Ghusha (finished in 1259CE).

This account of the Mongol invasions of his homeland Iran, written based on survivor accounts, is one of the main sources on the rapid sweep of Genghis Khan's armies through the nomadic tribes of Tajikstan and the established cities of the Silk Route including Otrar, Bukhara, and Samarkand in 1219, and successive campaigns until Genghis Khan's death in 1227 and beyond.

His writing is sometimes inflated, as when he estimates the strength of the Mongol army at 700,000, against other accounts that put the number between 105,000 and 130,000. His descriptions are often written from a sense of drama: of the fall of Assassin castle Maymun-Diz in November 1256, where he was present at the siege, he desrcibes the effect of trebuchet (catapult) bombardment on the battlements:

The first stones which were discharged from them broke the defenders' trebuchet and many were crushed under it. Fear of the quarrels from the crossbows overcame them so that they were in a complete panic and tried to make shields out of veils [i.e. they did best to defend with very indadequate equipment.] Some who were standing on towers crept in their terror like mice into holes or fled like lizards into the crannies of the rocks.

Juvayni's descriptions are however a very valuable resource for contemporary Mongol history, along with the work of Rashid al-Din, and the Mongol/Chinese version Secret History of the Mongols.

One of his convincing descriptions is that of the Mongol hunt or nerge as an army training exercise for the nomadic Mongols. In a nerge the whole army rounded up all the animals over a large region, in order to obtain dried meat before the onset of winter. In the time of Genghis Khan, the nerge was converted into an exercise in discipline with severe punishments for commanders of tens, hundreds, or thousands, who let animals escape. Once rounded up, the animals were ruthlessly massacred, first by the Khan, then by princes, and finally, only after so commanded, by all the army. This was to form a model for the ruthlessness of Mongol attacks on well-established human settlements.

Much of this record of ruthlessness may however, have been exaggerated, possibly because there was no stigma against killing of resistors in the Mongol ethos. For example, after the fall of Merv in Turkmenistan, the people were rounded up and distributed among the soldiers in tens, hundreds and thousands, and each man in the remaining Mongol army was assigned the execution of "three to four hundred people." However, there is no doubt that this type of savagery was part of the terror spread by the Mongol army.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ata_al-Mulk_Juvayni