#Ghazna

Persian Rose, stay at home! 🇺🇸🇮🇷🏳️

Burning of the libraries of #Ctseiphon, Rayy, #Avicenna, Ghazna, #Nishapur or #Alamut in #Persia were some of hundreds of book-burning incidents! #Iran https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_book-burning_incidentsHere’s a list: https://en.m.wikipedi

THREADOn al-Bīrūnī and his book "India" (al-Hind) Al-Bīrūnī was an astronomer, mathematician, and philosopher who died in the middle of the 11th century CE. Look, here he is on a

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

Q: Mama, why are you writing about a dead subject like the history of libraries?Me: Because the history of books and libraries is the history of knowledge. What could be

A Phoney GraveA Sultan in AbsentiaA Ghauri Misfired___Taking G.T.Road from Rawalpindi few furlongs short of the station of Sohawa, due left, a tiny road branches off into the wilderness called

Ways of looking at a page, since MSS from Iran copied on coated & decorated Chinese paper seem to be a Twitter thing just now: Spencer Collection, Persian MS 41,

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

This thread is on the #Holocaust of #Hindus in past 2000 years. #must_read because No one is going to tell these things to u,therefore it is very important to read

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)

History of Central Asia and Khorâsan

Going to start a new thread about battles, tactics, armies, warriors and military titles in Eastern and Western Iranic lands, right under this tweet. At the Battle of Gaugamela (October