Greatest Iranians (All Iranic Peoples): Past and Present.

Of course you can celebrate

We are celebrating to. Ankaras biggest hospitals name is Ibni Sina Hospital. We like him to and he is a great example for us

Originally posted by Ponce de Leon Ouch!!! Calling a Turkish national hero an Iranian. Why you have to say things like that

which national hero? ataturk? i didnt say anything about ataturk.

Ismail founder of the Safavid Dynasty of Iran.

Darius the Great

Khosru the Great, Shah of Sassanid Persia, who brought the Byzantines to their knees, and took revenge on the Greeks and Romans for destroying Achaemenid Persia.

arash hey, i like his music...

sara racey tabrizi.....hottttttt!!

Babak Khorramdin.

Nezami G�nj�vi (نظامی گنجوی in Persian, Nizami Gəncəvi in Azerbaijani)‎ (1141 � 1209), whose full Arabic name was Nizām ad-Dīn Abū Muhammad Ilyās ibn-Yusūf ibn-Zakī ibn-Muˤayyid Nizāmī Ganjavī, was a Persian poet and storywriter. He was born in Ganja (known during the Soviet period as Kirovabad, Azerbaijan), the capital of Arran in Azerbaijan, where he remained until his death. According to some sources, his father originated from the village of Ta or Tafresh near Qom and his mother, named Ra'isa, was Kurdish. [1]

The region of Arran (the central lowland part of today's Republic of Azerbaijan), where Nez�m� lived and wrote, had in his time only recently become the scene of significant literary activity in Persian. In Azerbaijan, where numerous languages and dialects were spoken, one of the original languages was a local Iranian dialect, Āzarī (not to be confused by the Turkic Azeri language now spoken in the region), but with increasing westward migrations of Turks in the eleventh century Turkish became widespread.

When in the twelfth century the Seljuks extended their control into the region, their provincial governors, virtually autonomous local princes, encouraged Persian letters. By the mid-twelfth century, many important poets enjoyed their patronage, and there developed a distinctive Azerbaijani style of poetry in Persian, which contrasted with Khorasani ("Eastern") style in its rhetorical sophistication, its innovative use of metaphor and its use of technical terminology and Christian imagery.

Sassanid king, Bahram Gur is a great favourite in Persian tradition and poetry. Depction of Nizami's "Bahram and the Indian princess in the black pavilion" Khamse ("Quintet"), mid-16th century Safavid era.

Works

Nezami lived in an age of both political instability and intense intellectual activity, which his poems reflect; but little is known about his life, his relations with his patrons, or the precise dates of his works, as the accounts of later biographers are colored by the many legends built up around the poet. Although he left a small corpus of lyric poetry, Nezami is best known for his five long narrative poems.

Often referred to by the honorific H�kim "the Sage", Nezami is both a learned poet and master of a lyrical and sensuous style. His poems show that not only was he fully acquainted with Arabic and Persian literature and with oral and written popular and local traditions, but was also familiar with such diverse fields as mathematics, geometry, astronomy and astrology, alchemy, medicine, Koranic exegesis, Islamic theology and law, history, ethnics, philosophy and esoteric thought, music and the visual arts.

Nezami was a master of the Masnavi style (double-rhymed verses) and one of the four great Persian poets of the 12th century CE. He wrote poetical works; the main one is the P�njg�nj "Quinary", also known by the Persian pronunciation of the same word in Arabic, Khamseh. The Quinary includes five books:

• Makhzan al-Asrar "The Storehouse of Mysteries" (1165)
• Khosrow o Shirin "Khosrow and Shirin" (1175)
• Leyle o M�jnun "Layla and Majnun" (1188)
• Esk�nd�rname "The Book of Alexander" (1191)
• H�ft Peykar "The Seven Beauties" (1198)

The Nezami Museum of Literature is located in Baku, Azerbaijan. Nezami's mausoleum is located in Ganja, Azerbaijan. The monument was built in 1991 replaced a similar obelisk dating from the late 1940s. The mausoleum is an elegant marble covered structure about 20 m tall. Behind it there is an open area with a display of scenes from Nezami's books, sculpted in metal.

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

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همه عالم تن است و ایران دل
نیست گوینده زین قیاس خجل

Azarbaijan was and is part of Iran , so their people are Iranian.

except Shah Abbas and Nadir the rest were Azarbaijani, so what , they were Iranian too, Are people of lankaran are not Azarbaijani?

Shusha belongs to Artsakh(or older Nogorno-Qarabag) many of the most famous Azari musicians have born there, does it make them Armenian?or at least Artsakhian?

thats not claim, thats our history, and about stealing, surely we are not those who do that.

Persia, (Pars or Fars) province is one of the provinces of Iran in southern Iran, and surely has a rich and long History, but here we speak about Iran, which includes both Pars and Azarbaijan.

No we have only one persian moderator and he is Zagros,(and actualy he is not persian)

we chuvenist Iranian!!!!! Shame on us,

no you'll not be banned, because not Zagros nor anybody else has this power to ban any one who want, you must first break the rules then they will ban you, by that time, enjoy your life.

Thank you

History is a science, and there is not any version for it.If it is true, it is science, If it is for propaganda, its not History.

for Politics I think you were succesfull. We found so much about intentions of our northern neighbor.(And our president still insists on friendship between two !!Brother !!country)

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And Mission?????!!!! Are you an Agent!!!!!!

Amen!!!!!!!!!!!!!

guys, I have a question.

what is the definition of "Iranic"? I know what Iranian is, but Iranic, not so sure.

are you talking about a language group or a cultural,...ethnical or w/e.

I mean can we like claim to Alans (ossetians)? even though they never really were part of Iranian nation. are you implying about Greater Iran?