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Sistani Culture
Sistani may refer to: *Sistan, a historical and geographical region in eastern Iran *Sistani Persian people, who mainly inhabit Iran, Afghanistan and Pakistan *Sistani Language *Sistani (surname) *Sistani Mahalleh Sistani Mahalleh ( fa, سيستاني محله, also Romanized as Sīstānī Maḩalleh; also known as Sīstān Maḩalleh) is a village in Anjirabad Rural District, in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran Ira ..., a village in Iran * Tolombeh-ye Habib Sistani, a village in Iran * Vahdapar va Arbandi Sistani, a village in Iran {{disambiguation, geo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sistan
Sistān ( fa, سیستان), known in ancient times as Sakastān ( fa, سَكاستان, "the land of the Saka"), is a historical and geographical region in present-day Eastern Iran ( Sistan and Baluchestan Province) and Southern Afghanistan (Nimruz, Helmand, Kandahar). Largely desert, the region is bisected by the Helmand River, the largest river in Afghanistan, which empties into the Hamun Lake that forms part of the border between the two countries. Etymology Sistan derives its name from ''Sakastan'' ("the land of the Saka"). The Sakas were a Scythians, Scythian tribe which from the 2nd century BC to the 1st century migrated to the Iranian Plateau and Indus valley, where they carved a kingdom known as the Indo-Scythians, Indo-Scythian Kingdom. In the Bundahishn, a Zoroastrian scripture written in Middle Persian, Pahlavi, the province is called "Seyansih". After the Muslim conquest of Persia, Arab conquest of Iran, the province became known as Sijistan/Sistan. The more ancien ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sistani Persian People
Sistani Persians (Persian: مردم سیستانی) (also known as the Sistanis, Sistan, and historically referred to Sagzi) are a Persian ethnic group, who primarily inhabit Sistan in southeastern Iran and historically southwestern Afghanistan as well. Their descendants in Afghanistan are primarily the Pashtun tribe of the Sakzai who are the largest ethnicity in the Southwestern parts of Afghanistan. They live in the northern part of Sistan and Balouchistan province, where they form a major minority (40–50% of the province) after the Baloch people. Since recent decades many also have migrated to other parts of Iran such as Tehran and Golestan provinces in northern Iran. The largest city of Sistan region is Zabol. Sistanis speak a dialect of Persian known as Sistani or Zaboli. Sistani Persians are Shia Muslim, in contrast to Baloch people who are Sunni Muslim. The Iranian Shia cleric Ayatollah Sistani, though from Mashhad, had an ancestor who moved to Sistan during the Sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sistani Language
Sistani ( fa, سیستانی), also known as Sistooni () and Zaboli (), is a dialect continuum of the Persian language spoken by Sistani Persian people, Sistani people in Iran and Afghanistan. It is part of the Southwestern Iranian languages, Southwestern Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian languages, Indo-Iranian group of Indo-European languages. Sistani Phrases Comparison between Sistani dialect of Persian and Balochi language Sistani Words References Sources * "The Status of [h] and [ʔ] in the Sistani Dialect of Miyankangi". Carina Jahani, Farideh Okati, Abbas Ali Ahangar. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 1:1 (2009), pp. 80–99. * "Natural Phonological Processes in Sistani Persian of Iran". Okati, Farideh, Ahangar, Abbas Ali, Anonby, Erik, Jahani, Carina. Iranian Journal of Applied Language Studies, 2:1, (2010), pp. 93–120. *Gilbert Lazard, Lazard, Gilbert (1974). “Morphologie du verbe dans le parler persan du Sistan”, in Studia Iran ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sistani (surname)
Sistani is an Arabic surname. Notable people with the surname include: *Ali al-Sistani Ali al-Husayni al-Sistani ( ar, علي الحسيني السيستاني; fa, , Ali-ye Hoseyni-ye Sistāni; born 4 August 1930), commonly known as Ayatollah Sistani, is an Iranian–Iraqi Twelver Shia Ayatollah and marja'. He has been described ... (born 1930), Iranian religious leader * Farrukhi Sistani ( 980–1037 or 1038), Persian poet Arabic-language surnames {{Short pages monitor ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sistani Mahalleh
Sistani Mahalleh ( fa, سيستاني محله, also Romanized as Sīstānī Maḩalleh; also known as Sīstān Maḩalleh) is a village in Anjirabad Rural District, in the Central District of Gorgan County, Golestan Province, Iran Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmeni .... At the 2006 census, its population was 902, in 201 families. References Populated places in Gorgan County {{Gorgan-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
