Pourya-ye Vali

Pahlavan Mohammad Khwarazmi known as Pourya-ye Vali (decease 1322 CE) was an Iranian Sufi and champion. He is famous for his chivalrous behavior and his strength and is still a paradigm for Zurkhaneh athletes. He also wrote a book yclept �Kanz ol-Haghayegh� (literally the treasure of the truths) in Persian. A couplet from him which is being sung in Zurkhaneh is as below:

Oftadegi amouz agar taleb-e feizi,

Hargez nakhorad aab zamini ke boland ast

Literally;

Learn modesty, if you desire knowledge,

A highland would never be irrigated by river

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pourya-ye_Vali

there is a fight going on in wikipedia right now. the Iranians say that they should write Persian, but this one arab guy says that they should just have it say islamic.

but he was persian/tajik.

poor kasravi, the mullahs killed him!!!

he was azeri, he even wrote books about how azeri's were not origionally turkic but iranic.  i have printed out a copy of his book, its in persian, but my dad translates it for me when ever he reads something in it. 

and i love mossadegh, true hero! one of the greatest men of all time, in the history of the world!

i think its about time these muslims got a dose of reality.

i say killing every radical mullah in iran will would do just that. LOL

but no, i dont advocate violence.

Absolutly ridicolouse. Islam is not a ethnicity, so what is a "muslim mathematician"? They call Omar Khayam a muslim scientist too. Who has read his "Robayiat", will really doubt if he was a muslim.

@Aryan, no i havn't but i will, my father has this book. Thanks.

i ran cross country for one year, wasnt very good though

lol sure it is, that is why you have no evidence to prove they were originally turkic. they were either iranic or some other ethnicity, definetly not turkic until they were turkified.

kasravi was an azari man, and he even said so!

Sibawayh (Sibuyeh in Persian, سيبويه S�bawayh in Arabic, سیبویه was a linguist of Persian origin born ca. 760 AD in the town of Bayza (ancient Nesayak) in the Fars province of Iran. He was one of the earliest and greatest grammarians of the Arabic language, and his phonetic description of Arabic is one of the most precise ever made, leading some to compare him with Panini. Since the Arabs didn't encourage non-Arabs to learn their language so that only Arabs can take high positions in the government, he was the first non-Arab to write on Arabic grammar and therefore the first one to explain the Arabic grammar from a non-Arab perspective. He greatly helped to spread the Arabic language in the Middle East.

The name Sibawayh is derived from the Persian words سیب-بو-یه (Sib-bu-yeh) meaning "the one with an apple's scent". Sibawayh died in Shiraz (also in the Fars province of Iran) around 793 AD.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sibawayh
http://www.iranianshistoryonthisday.com/FARSI.ASP?u=&I1. x=32&I1.y=10&GD=2&GM=1

Boie Joie Molian Aiad hami
Iade Iare Mehraban Aiad Hami

Rige Amoi va Doroshti Rah Oo
Zire Paiam Parnian Aiad Hami

Abe Jeihon az Neshate Roie Dost
Khange Ma ra ta Mian Aiad Hami

Ei Bokhara Shad Basho Shad Zi!
Mir, zi To Shademan Aiad Hami

Mir, Mah Ast va Bokhara, Aseman
Mah, Soie Aseman Aiad Hami

Mir, Sarv Asto Bokhara Bostan
Sarv, Soie Bostan Aiad Hami

The Ju-yi Mulian we call to mind,
We long for those dear friends long left behind.
The sands of Oxus, toilsome though they be,
Beneath my feet were soft as silk to me.
Glad at the friend's return, the Oxus deep
Up to our girths in laughing waves shall leap.
Long live Bukhara! Be thou of good cheer!
Joyous towards thee hasteth our Amir!
The moon's the prince, Bukhara is the sky;
O Sky, the Moon shall light thee by and by!
Bukhara is the Mead, the Cyress he;
Receive at last, O Mead, thy Cypress tree!

I Didn't translate, I only found it & it isn't good one

He was born in Rudak, a village in Transoxiana, about 870-900. Most of his biographers assert that he was totally blind, but the accurate knowledge of colors shown in his poems makes this very doubtful. He was the court poet to the Samanid ruler Nasr II (914-943) in Bukhara, but he eventually fell out of favour and ended his life in poverty.

At the Samanid court

Early in his life, the fame of his accomplishments reached the ear of the Smanid Nasr II bin Ahmad, the ruler of Khorasan and Transoxiana, who invited the poet to his court. Rudaki became his daily companion, rose to the highest honors and amassed great wealth. In spite of various predecessors, he well deserves the title of father of Persian literature, the Adam or Sultan of poets, since he was the first who impressed upon every form of epic, lyric and didactic poetry its peculiar stamp and its individual character. He is also said to have been the founder of the diwan that is, the typical form of the complete collection of a poets lyrical compositions in a more or less alphabetical order which prevails to the present day among all Persian writers.

Extant publications

Of the 1,300,000 verses attributed to him, there remain only 52 qasidas, ghazals and rubais; of his epic masterpieces we have nothing beyond a few stray lines in native dictionaries. But the most serious loss is that of his translation of Ibn Mokaffa's Arabic version of the old Indian fable book Kalilak and Dimnah (Panchatantra), which he put into Persian verse at the request of his royal patron. Numerous fragments, however, are preserved in the Persian lexicon of Asadi Tusi (ed. P. Horn, G�ttingen, 1897). In his qasidas, all devoted to the praise of his sovereign and friend, Rudagi has left us unequalled models of a refined and delicate taste, very different from the often bombastic compositions of later Persian encomiasts. His didactic odes and epigrams express in well-measured lines a sort of Epicurean philosophy of human life and human happiness; more charming still are the purely lyrical pieces in glorification of love and wine.

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