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Karnameye Balkh
Karnameye Balkh or Karname-ye Balkh (title means ''workbook of Balkh'') is one of the works of Sanai and it contain his poet's composed when he stop in Balkh city. It is about five hundred verses and because it was written through some jokes, it has also been called the Humor letter (Motayebe Nameh). In this work, the poet deals with some aspects of his life and his father and some of his contemporaries. This work has been corrected and published by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi in Persian. See also * Hadiqat al Haqiqa * Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad * Tariq ut-tahqiq * Karname-ye Ardeshir-e Babakan * Matigan-i Hazar Datistan The Matigan-i Hazar Datistan was the judicial code of the Magistan (Megisthanes), the imperial parliament of the Arsacid Empire (150 BCE–226 CE) and, for a while, of the Sassanid Empire (226–650 CE). The ''Matigan-i Hazar Datistan'' was a co ... * Sheikh San'Aan References External links SANĀʾI on iranicaonlineSanai's books on GoodreadsHak ...
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Sanai
Hakim Abul-Majd Majdūd ibn Ādam Sanā'ī Ghaznavi ( fa, ), more commonly known as Sanai, was a Persian poet from Ghazni who lived his life in the Ghaznavid Empire which is now located in Afghanistan. He was born in 1080 and died between 1131 and 1141. Life Sanai was a Sunni Muslim.Edward G. Browne, ''A Literary History of Persia from the Earliest Times Until Firdawsh'', 543 pp., Adamant Media Corporation, 2002, , (see p.437) He was connected with the court of the Ghaznavid Bahram-shah who ruled 1117 – 1157. Works He wrote an enormous quantity of mystical verse, of which ''The Walled Garden of Truth'' or ''The Hadiqat al Haqiqa'' (حدیقه الحقیقه و شریعه الطریقه) is his master work and the first Persian mystical epic of Sufism. Dedicated to Bahram Shah, the work expresses the poet's ideas on God, love, philosophy and reason. For close to 900 years ''The Walled Garden of Truth'' has been consistently read as a classic and employed as a Sufi textboo ...
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Balkh
), named for its green-tiled ''Gonbad'' ( prs, گُنبَد, dome), in July 2001 , pushpin_map=Afghanistan#Bactria#West Asia , pushpin_relief=yes , pushpin_label_position=bottom , pushpin_mapsize=300 , pushpin_map_caption=Location in Afghanistan , subdivision_type=Country , subdivision_name= , subdivision_type1=Province , subdivision_name1=Balkh Province , subdivision_type2=District , subdivision_name2=Balkh District , population_as_of=2021 , population_footnotes= , population_blank1_title=City , population_blank1=138,594 , population_blank2_title=Religions , timezone=+ 4.30 , coordinates= , blank_name=Climate , blank_info=BSk Balkh (; prs, , ''Balkh''; xbc, Βάχλο, ''Bákhlo''; grc, Βάκτρα, ''Báktra'') is a town in the Balkh Province of Afghanistan, about northwest of the provincial capital, Mazar-e Sharif, and some south of the Amu Darya river and the Uzbekistan border. Its population was recently estimated to be 138,594. Balkh was historically an ancient pla ...
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Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi
Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi distinguished Professor of University of Tehran, was an Iranian Literary researcher and author. He was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran on March 18, 1896, and died on November 19, 1986, in Tehran, Iran. He was one of the teachers in Astan Quds Razavi and taught there for many years like his father Mirza Mohammad Baqir Modarres Razavi. In 1927, he joined the Ministry of Culture of Iran and taught literary sciences in Mashhad and Tehran. At the beginning of the establishment of the University of Tehran, he was elected as professor and taught in the Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies and Faculty of Letters and Humanities there until he retired. In 1976, he chosen as distinguished professor at the University of Tehran. Genealogy and life Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi was born in Mashhad, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran on March 18, 1896. His last name "Modarres" (means teacher in Persian) was related to teaching position o ...
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Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, a der ...
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Hadiqat Al Haqiqa
Mathnawi Hadiqat al Haqiqa va Shari'at al-Tariqah ( ar, حديقة الحقيقة وشريعة الطريقة, lit=The Garden of Truth and The Path to Trek) or Elahi Nameh ( fa, الهی نامه, lit=Treatise to Theology) is an early Sufi book of poetry written in the Persian language, composed by Sanai Ghaznavi, with an Irfan theme. Sanai started composing it in the year 1130 AD (524 AH) and finished it in the year 1131 AD (525 AH). The book has ten thousand verses in ten chapters; The subjects of this book, in addition to praising Allah, the Last Prophet of Islam, his family and companions, are about intellect, knowledge, wisdom and love. The manuscripts of Hadiqat al Haqiqa have been corrected and republished by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi in 1949. Another correction has been published by Mohammad Jafar Yahaghi and Mehdi Zarghani in two volumes in October 2018. Its validity Compared to other valuable works of Sanai such as his s ...
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Seir Al-Ebad Elal-Ma'ad
Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad (meaning: the journey of the servants in return to origin) is a poetry book of Sanai in form of Masnavi which moral issues are discussed. Its release date back to year 1131 AD (525 AH). In this book, Sanai discusses the creation of man and psyches and wisdoms through allegory. The Masnavi of ''Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad'' was composed in same rhythm of Hadiqat ul-Haqiqah and is about 800 verses long. Sanai composed ''Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad'' in Sarakhs, Razavi Khorasan Province, Iran and finished it with the praise of someone called ''Abu al-Mafakher Saif al-Din Muhammad ibn Mansour'', the judge of Sarakhs. ''Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad'' is in fact an allusion to the journey of the mystic in the authorities of annihilation. During it, the poet narrates the story of the passage of the soul, guiding by intellect through the levels and curtains of a Neoplatonism world. Similar to this work in European literature is Dante's Divine Comedy. In pre-Islamic ...
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Tariq Ut-tahqiq
Tariq ut-tahqiq is one of the books attributed to Hakim Sanai Ghaznavi. This is The old Persian mystical poetry book from year 528 AH in Masnavi form. This book was published in Persian by Mohammad Taghi Modarres Razavi under the name "Masnavi of Sanai" in 1969 with association of the University of Tehran Press.Bo Utas, ''Tariq ut-tahqiq.'' A Sufi Mathnavi ascribed to Hakim Sana’i of Ghazna and probably composed by Ahmad b. al-Hasan b. Muhammad an-Naxcavani. A critical edition, with a history of the text and a commentary (Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, 13), Lund 1973. 243, 55 pp.Bo Utas, ''A Persian Sufi Poem: Vocabulary and Terminology''. Scandinavian Institute of Asian Studies Monograph Series, Curzon Press, 1977. Sample poem For example, a poem called ''Litany'' from this book translated to english as follows: See also * Hadiqat al Haqiqa * Seir al-Ebad elal-Ma'ad * Karnameye Balkh * Karname-ye Ardeshir-e Babakan * Matigan-i H ...
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Karname-ye Ardeshir-e Babakan
The Kār-Nāmag ī Ardašīr ī Pāpakān ("''Book of the Deeds of Ardeshir, Son of Papak''") (New fa, کارنامهٔ اردشیر بابکان), is a short Middle Persian prose tale written in the Sassanid period (226-651). The story narrates the story of Ardashir I, the founder of the Sassanid dynasty. His own life story—his rise to the throne, battle against the Parthian king Ardawān (or Artabanus), and conquest of the empire by the scion of the House of Sāsān, as well as episodes concerning his heir Šābuhr and the latter’s son, Ohrmazd. After Ardashir was born, son of Pabag's daughter and Sāsān, he spent his childhood in the court of Artabanus IV of Parthia and then ran away with a maidservant of the King. After several wars with Artabanus, Ardashir I defeated and killed the king, and thus could found the new empire. The Karnamag is permeated with Zoroastrian doctrine. Manuscripts The sole independent manuscript of this text to have been identified so far is c ...
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Matigan-i Hazar Datistan
The Matigan-i Hazar Datistan was the judicial code of the Magistan (Megisthanes), the imperial parliament of the Arsacid Empire (150 BCE–226 CE) and, for a while, of the Sassanid Empire (226–650 CE). The ''Matigan-i Hazar Datistan'' was a compilation of the social, moral, civil and criminal laws of the time. Although the name suggests a thousand chapters or laws (''Hazar'': thousand), it is not known whether the code really had that many, and may simply mean 'a significant number'. A considerable portion of the code has been lost. External linksThe law in ancient Persia Parthian Empire Law of the Sasanian Empire Legal codes Middle Persian literature Legal history of Iran {{asia-law-stub ...
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Sheikh San'Aan
"Sheikh San'Aan" or "San'Aan" is the title of a Persian mystical poem written by the Persian Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar. "Sheikh San'Aan" is the longest story in the book '' The Conference of the Birds''. Synopsis Sheikh San'Aan, an old man, is highly devout and the leader of his people. He has lived in Kaaba for about fifty years, accepting disciples and praying and fasting continuously. He has performed the Hajj fifty times and discovered many spiritual secrets. One day, he has a dream that he is settled in Rûm and bowing to an idol. This dream repeats over several consecutive nights. He travels to Rûm with his disciples, where he meets a Christian woman and falls in love with her, spending over a month begging for her acceptance. The woman comes up with four conditions for the sheikh: bow to the idol, burn the Quran, start drinking wine and abandon the faith. In addition to fulfilling these conditions, San'Aan shepherds her pigs for a year to pay th ...
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