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Shahidi
Shahidi ( fa, شهیدی) is a common surname in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan. Like the given name Shahid, it is a Muslim theophoric name, from '' Aš-Šāhid'' (), one of the 99 names of God in the Qur'an. It is derived from ''šāhid '', the Arabic word for "witness" or "martyr". Shahidis of Iran Sadat Shahidi Mashhad The Shahidi family of Khorasan are a distinguished and influential Sayyid family that dominated the prominent religious positions in Mashhad for approximately 150 years, and thereby deeply influenced the contemporary history of Iran. They are descended from Ayatollah Mirza Mohammad Mehdi Khorasani ( fa, آيت الله میرزا محمد مهدی حسينی اصفهانی خراسانی شهید رابع), who traced his lineage to Imam Jafar Sadeq through Shah Nematollah Vali. In 1803, Mirza Mehdi became the fourth enumerated martyr (shahid) of Shia Islam when he was killed by (or at the direction of) Nader Mirza Afshar because Nader Mirza mistakenly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Yara Shahidi
Yara Sayeh Shahidi (born February 10, 2000) is an American actress and model. She gained recognition for her starring role as the oldest daughter Zoey Johnson on the sitcom ''Black-ish'' (2014–2022) and its spin-off series '' Grown-ish'' (2018–present). Her film credits include ''Imagine That'' (2009), ''Smallfoot'' (2018), and the lead role in '' The Sun Is Also a Star'' (2019). ''Time'' included her on "The 30 Most Influential Teens of 2016" list. Early life Yara Sayeh Shahidi was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, to Keri Salter Shahidi and Afshin Shahidi, a photographer. Her mother, Keri Salter, is of African-American and Choctaw heritage, whereas her father Afshin is Iranian. Afshin was one of the principal photographers for musician Prince until his death in 2016. Prince also kept a signed photo of Yara in his editing suit at Paisley Park, which can be seen on the VIP Tour. The family moved to California for Afshin's work when Yara was 4 years old. She is the older sist ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jafar Shahidi
, image = Dr Seyed Jafar Shahidi (01).png , image caption = , birth_name = , birth_date = March 21, 1919 , birth_place = Borujerd, Iran , death_date = , death_place = Tehran, Iran , occupation = Distinguished professor and scholar of Persian Literature and Islamic history and theology, President and Editor-in-Chief of Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, Founder of the International Center for Persian Studies , alma_mater = University of Tehran , nationality = Iranian , children = Dr. Hossein Shahidi (d. 2014),Dr. Hassan Shahidi,Dr. Mohsen Shahidi,Dr. Shokoufeh Shahidi,Ehsan Shahidi (d.-) , website = Jafar Shahidi known as Seyed Jafar Shahidi ( fa, سید جعفر شهیدی; March 21, 1919 in Borujerd, Iran – January 13, 2008 in Tehran) was a distinguished scholar of the Persian language and literature, and a renowned historian of Islam. Born in Boroujerd, Lorestan Province, Iran, Shahidi dedicated his life to Persian studies, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Shahidi
John Shahidi is the President of Shots Podcast Network and Happy Dad Hard Seltzer. Also, a partner of the popular YouTube group, Nelk Boys. On October 28, 2022, Shahidi became an investor and advisor to Twitter and Elon Musk. With his brother Sam Shahidi, the two started Shots Podcast Network, a YouTube podcast network for top internet brands and talent including Full Send Podcast, Mike Tyson, The Pivot Podcast and Lele Pons Show. Shahidi has also created multiple successful NFTs, including the Full Send Metacard and Full Send x Alien Frens. Early life John Shahidi was born to an Iranian Kurdish family in Los Angeles, California and grew up in Orange County, California. He and his younger brother Sam Shahidi grew up in Southern California. They were raised by their mother and grandmother. Career Justin Bieber Partnership John and Sam Shahidi started developing iOS apps in 2009 and started out as a video game development company called Rock Software, later renamed RockL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Burhan Shahidi
Burhan Shahidi ( ug, بۇرھان شەھىدى, برهان شهيدي, translit=Burhan Shehidi; zh, s=包尔汉·沙希迪, t=包爾漢·沙希迪, p=Bāo'érhàn·Shāxīdí; russian: Бурхан Шахиди; tt-Cyrl, Борһан Шәһиди, translit=Borhan Şähidi; also spelled Bao Erhan; 3 October 1894 – 27 August 1989) was a political leader in Xinjiang, China, during the 20th century. Life Early life Burhan Shahidi was born in 1894 in the Russian Kazan Governorate to a Tatar family. His family was poor and he received little schooling in his early years. In 1912, after the Qing Dynasty was overthrown, he accompanied Tatar merchants to Dihua (now Ürümqi) in Xinjiang and worked as an apprentice and store-clerk.(Chinese"新疆风云人物 数朝元老包尔汉"1 November 2010 In 1914, he was able to apply and receive Chinese citizenship from the Republic of China on account of his family's ancestry.(Chinese"包尔汉率新疆省政府起义始末" 《青年参考 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ghavam Shahidi
Ghavam G. Shahidi (born 1959) is an Iranian-American electrical engineer and IBM Fellow. He is the director of Silicon Technology at the IBM Thomas J Watson Research Center. He is best known for his pioneering work in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology since the late 1980s. Career He studied electrical engineering at MIT, where he wrote a PhD thesis on "velocity overshoot in deeply scaled MOSFETs" (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors), under supervision of Professor Dimitri A. Antoniadis. A 60nanometer silicon MOSFET (metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor) was fabricated by Shahidi with Antoniadis and Henry I. Smith at MIT in 1986. The device was fabricated using X-ray lithography. Shahidi joined IBM Research in 1989, where he initiated and subsequently led the development of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) technology at IBM. It was called the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freydoon Shahidi
Freydoon Shahidi (born June 19, 1947) is an Iranian American mathematician who is a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics at Purdue University in the U.S. He is known for a method of automorphic L-functions which is now known as the Langlands–Shahidi method.F. Shahidi, ''Eisenstein Series and Automorphic L-functions'', Colloquium Publications, Vol. 58, American Mathematical Society, Providence, Rhode Island, 2010. Education and career Shahidi graduated from the University of Tehran with a bachelor's degree in 1969. He received his Ph.D. in 1975 from Johns Hopkins University with dissertation ''On Gauss Sums Attached to the Pairs and the Exterior Powers of the Representations of the General Linear Groups over Finite and Local Fields'' with advisor Joseph Shalika. As a postdoc Shahidi was for the academic year 1975–1976 at the Institute for Advanced Study and for the academic year 1976–1977 a visiting assistant professor at Indiana University in Bloomington. At Purdue Univer ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ziyodullo Shahidi
Ziyodullo Shahidi (May 4, 1914 – February 25, 1985) ( tg, Зиёдулло Шаҳидӣ/ fa, زیادالله شهیدی) was a Tajik musician and father of Persian Symphonic Music in Tajikistan. After The Second World War, in 1946, a group of Tajik melodists entered Moscow Conservatory, but only one of them managed to graduate from that School of Music. He was Ziyodullo Shahidi (1914–1985). Merging maqam with symphony, he formalised modern Tajik music and became known as an outstanding figure of this form of synthesis. The reconciliation of different cultures as an idea goes back to the philosophy of Abu Ali ibn Sina (born in Bukhara in 980), known in Europe as Avicenna. Ziyodullo Shahidi was born in Samarkand, Uzbekistan, at the beginning of the century. He overcame two crucial events in the culture of the region: the replacement of Arabic-based Persian and Turkish writing systems by Cyrillic, and the persecution of intellectuals - his father, Mucaddaskhan Shahidi, w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad-Ali Shahidi
Hojjatoleslam Sayyid Mohammad Ali Shahidi Mahallati ( fa, سید محمد علی شهیدی محلاتی) was an Iranian cleric and politician who served as Director of Foundation of Martyrs and Veterans Affairs from 2013 to 2020. In 2009, former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, established the post of Chief Inspector, and put Shahidi as the first leader. However he was replaced on the July 20, 2011. He was brother-in-law of Ali Akbar Nategh-Nouri and Abbas Ahmad Akhoundi. Early life Mohammad Ali Shahidi was born on July 9, 1949, in Mahallat, Iran. He began his early life, studying in the Hawza, and has earned the rank of Hojjatoleslam, and equivalent of a master's degree. It is known that he came to know Iranian President, Hassan Rouhani, from the years at the Hawza A hawza ( ar, حوزة) or ḥawzah ʿilmīyah ( ar, حوزة علمیة) is a seminary where Shi'a Muslim scholars are educated. The word ''ḥawzah'' is found in Arabic as well as the Persian language. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abdolvahaab Shahidi
Abdolvahab Shahidi ( fa, عبدالوهاب شهيدی; 23 September 1922 – 10 May 2021) was an Iranian barbat player, singer and composer in the classical style. He is noted as one of the contemporary pioneers of Persian music by BBC Persian BBC Persian ( fa, بیبیسی فارسی) is the Persian language broadcast station and subsidiary of BBC World Service which conveys the latest political, social, economical and sport news relevant to Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan, an ....http://www.bbc.co.uk/persian/arts/story/2006/07/060718_ag-music-pioneers.shtml (Persian) References 1922 births 2021 deaths Iranian composers 20th-century Iranian male singers Male singers on Golha Musicians from Isfahan {{Iran-musician-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolib Shahidi
Tolib-khon Shakhidi (Толиб-хон Шахиди) or Tolib Shahidi ( tg, Толиб Шаҳидӣ/ fa, طالب شهیدی, born 13 March 1946) is a Tajik and Soviet composer who was born in the city of Dushanbe, Tajik SSR. He is a son of the founder of Professional Tajik Academic Music – Ziyodullo Shakhidi. Early life Tolib-khon Shakhidi began his musical career at the age of fourteen. He graduated from the Musical College in Dushanbe in 1965 from the Composition Class of Uri Ter-Osipov. Career From 1972 to this day, Tolib Shakhidi has participated in a number of music festivals. "Taste, intellect, professionalism are the three main values of contemporary music" (). This aphorism, expressed by the composer fully complies with his own creative work. Tolib Shahidi represents a very rare type of Universal master-composer, who possesses the whole arsenal of contemporary musical language, yet uses the richest resources of traditional Eastern music of his region. This twin pil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shahid (name)
Shahid or Shahed ( ar, شاهد ') is a given name translating to " Witness" in Arabic and "Beloved" in Persian, mostly found in South Asia. Shahid, or Shaheed (Arabic: شهيد šahīd, plural: شُهَدَاء šuhadāʾ; female: šahīda), originates from the Quranic Arabic word meaning "witness" and is also used to denote a martyr in Islam. The word shahid in Arabic means "witness". It is derived form the same root š-h-d (c.f. Shahadah)."One who tells, or gives information of, what he has witnessed, or seen or beheld with his eye; one who declares what he know ..a witness, as meaning one who gives testimony, or evidence; who bears witness; ..'The witness'' against those to whom he has been sent." Lane, '' Arabic-English Lexicon'' (1863) I.1611. It is also used as a surname, ''Aš-šāhid'' "the witness" Shahid is a Muslim boy name and it is Arabic in origin with multiple meanings. The name is most famous in Asian countries like Pakistan, India, Bangladesh and Af ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sayyid
''Sayyid'' (, ; ar, سيد ; ; meaning 'sir', 'Lord', 'Master'; Arabic plural: ; feminine: ; ) is a surname of people descending from the Islamic prophet Muhammad through his grandsons, Hasan ibn Ali and Husayn ibn Ali, sons of Muhammad's daughter Fatima and his cousin and son-in-law Ali (Ali ibn Abi Talib). While in the early islamic period the title Al-Sayyid was applied on all the members of the of banu hashim, the tribe of Muhammad. But later on the title was made specific to those of Hasani and Hussaini descent, Primarily by the Fatimid Caliphs. Female ''sayyids'' are given the titles ''sayyida'', ''syeda'', ''alawiyah'' . In some regions of the Islamic world, such as in Iraq, the descendants of Muhammad are given the title '' amīr'' or ''mīr'', meaning "aristocrats", "commander", or "ruler". In Shia Islam the son of a non Sayyid father and a Sayyida mother claim the title Mirza. In Sunni Islam a person being a descendant of Muhammad, of either matern ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
