#Bamyan

Stefanie Glinski

Thread: Yesterday was International Day for Mine Awareness and I'm seeing lots of governments praising themselves for clearing #Afghanistan's mines and unexploded ordnances. A few things to remember: Directorate of

Darshana🇮🇳

TathagatThe famed gigantic Buddha statues of Bamyan, Afghanistan. They were carved out of mountain cliffs & were completed by 6th century CE. The bigger statue was 174 ft & the

Historians of Iran

HistorianofIran

Day5/ Persian and Malay Folk Stories (Hikayat) Muhammad Hanafiyyah from Iran to the Malay-Indonesian World1/In contrast to the genre of Kitab (religious works and tracts) which were for the purpose

While there is some truth to it, this assessment is blind to some fundamental transformations among some communities in #AFG that’s given greater space for women. For ex. there’re thousands

This shames Australia."It was blasted by Rio Tinto, along with a second sacred site, on Sunday, and the destruction was made public late on Tuesday. The mining giant received Ministerial

Why Taliban destroyed Buddhas of Bamiyan(Untold story) [Thread] The Buddhas of Bamiyan were two 6th-century monumental statues of Gautama Buddha carved into the side of a cliff in the

The discussion about the literal meanings for animals in Farsi/Dari got me thinking about the biodiversity of Afghanistan, and the animals that once inhabited or still present in the country.

S Ibrahimi ابراهيمي

Most of us have seen the recent Taliban interview with Mawlawi Mahdi, a Shia-Hazara commander of the #Taliban in the Balkhab district of Sar e Pul Province. Are the Taliban

Critical Race Theory and the anti-racism movement based off of it are dogmatic and racist, there is no other way to describe them.How ‘White Fragility’ Theory Turns Classrooms Into Power

1. In modern Persian, zamin-dar means 'the one who holds land' but it might be related to Middle Persian Zamin-i dātbar (Land of the Justice-giver). Zamin-i dātbar/Zamindawar was capital of

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a thread about architecture in Khorasan and Khwarezm and also its offshoot, India:The Tilla Kari madrasa was commissioned a decade after the adjacent Shir Dar madrasa (1619-1636)