Born into a Russian family of Armenian-Georgian origin in the Russian embassy of Tehran, Iran: Antoin Sevruguin was one of the many children of Vasily Sevryugin and a Georgian Achin Khanoum. Vasily Sevryugin was a Russian diplomat to Tehran. Achin had raised her children in Tbilisi, Georgia, because she was denied her husband's pension. After Vassil died in a horse riding accident Antoin gave up the art form of painting, and took up photography to support his family. His brothers Kolia and Emanuel helped him set up a studio in Tehran on Ala al-dawla Street (today Ferdowsi St.).
Saturday, 21 December 2019
Thursday, 12 December 2019
Naghse rostam
Naqsh-e Rostam is an ancient necropolis located about 12 km northwest of Persepolis, in Fars Province, Iran, with a group of ancient Iranian rock reliefs cut into the cliff, from both the Achaemenid and Sassanid periods. It lies a few hundred meters from Naqsh-e Rajab, with a further four Sassanid rock reliefs, three celebrating kings and one a high priest.
Tuesday, 3 December 2019
Haydeh with Mahasti
Monday, 2 December 2019
Fereydoun Farrokhzad's wedding picture
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, humanitarian and political opposition figure. He is best known for his variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei" which intorduced many artists such as Ebi, Leila Forouhar, Shohreh, Sattar and many more. He was the brother of the acclaimed Persian poets Forough Farrokhzad and Pooran Farrokhzad
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Fereydoun Farrokhzad |
Sunday, 1 December 2019
Sadegh Hedayat's Old Picture
Hedayat was born to a northern Iranian aristocratic family in Tehran (his great-grandfather Reza-Qoli Khan Hedayat was himself a well respected writer and worked in the government, as did other relatives) and was educated at Collège Saint-Louis (French catholic school) and Dar ol-Fonoon (1914–1916). In 1925, he was among a select few students who travelled to Europe to continue their studies. There, he initially went on to study engineering in Belgium, which he abandoned after a year to study architecture in France.
Elizabeth Taylor In Mashhad
Dame Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor DBE (February 27, 1932 – March 23, 2011) was a British-American actress, businesswoman, and humanitarian. She began her career as a child actress in the early 1940s, and was one of the most popular stars of classical Hollywood cinema in the 1950s. She continued her career successfully into the 1960s, and remained a well-known public figure for the rest of her life. In 1999, the American Film Institute named her the seventh-greatest female screen legend.
Tuesday, 22 October 2019
Maria al-Qibtiyya
Maria bint Shamʿūn, better known as Maria al-Qibtiyya , was an Egyptian who, along with her sister Sirin, were sent to the Islamic prophet Muhammad in 628 as a gift by Muqawqis, a governor of Alexandria, Egypt during the territory's Persian occupation
Wednesday, 16 October 2019
Friday, 4 October 2019
Cyrus
Cyrus the Great respected the customs and religions of the lands he conquered. This became a very successful model for centralized administration and establishing a government working to the advantage and profit of its subjects
Monday, 30 September 2019
Sunday, 29 September 2019
Avicenna
Ibn Sina, also known as Abu Ali Sina, Pur Sina , and often known in the west as Avicenna was a Persian polymath who is regarded as one of the most significant physicians, astronomers, thinkers and writers of the Golden Age
Friday, 27 September 2019
Quran
Uthman ibn Affan , was, a son-in-law and notable companion of the Islamic prophet Muhammad, the third of the Rashidun, or "Rightly Guided Caliphs".
Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Shaban Jafari
Shaban Jafari, often known as Shaban Bimokh, was an infamous street thug in Tehran. He was also a practitioner of Iranian Traditional sport and was a frequent at Zoorkhaneh. During the 1953 Iranian coup d'état,
Tuesday, 24 September 2019
Ali
Ali ibn Abi Talib was the cousin and son-in-law of Muhammad, the last prophet of Islam. He ruled as the fourth caliph from 656 to 661, but is regarded as the rightful immediate successor to Muhammad as an Imam by Shia Muslims.
Monday, 23 September 2019
Fateme & Mohammad
Fatimah is given many titles by Muslims to show their admiration of her moral and physical characteristics. The most used title is "al-Zahra", meaning "the shining one", and she is commonly referred to as Fatimah Zahra
Sunday, 22 September 2019
Afsaneh
Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel (Jibril), incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE
Friday, 20 September 2019
Husayn ibn Ali
He is an important figure in Islam as he was a member of the Household of Muhammad and the People of the Cloak, as well as the third Shia Imam.
Thursday, 19 September 2019
Quran
Muslims believe that the Quran was orally revealed by God to the final Prophet, Muhammad, through the archangel Gabriel incrementally over a period of some 23 years, beginning on 22 December 609 CE
Wednesday, 18 September 2019
Hasan
Al-Hasan ibn Ali ibn Abi Talib, commonly known as Hasan or Hassan, was the eldest son of Ali and Muhammad's daughter Fatimah, and was the older brother of Husayn. Muslims respect him as a grandson of the Islamic Prophet Muhammad
Monday, 26 August 2019
Iran with Islam
Islam is often seen as having the simplest doctrines of the major religions.Its most fundamental concept is a rigorous monotheism, called tawḥid.
Saturday, 17 August 2019
Din
The concept of divine will is referred to as al-qadāʾ wa l-qadar, which literally derives from a root that means to measure. Everything, good and bad, is believed to have been decreed.
Thursday, 15 August 2019
Hoghoogh begiran dar Iran
Ismail Raeen (born 2 Solar - born 2 January) was a scholar and historian of Bushehr. His famous book, The Forgotten House and Freemasonry in Iran.
Tuesday, 13 August 2019
Sheitan
Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.
Wednesday, 15 May 2019
Az Koleini Ta Khomeini
Shojaeddin Shafa (Šoǧā' al-Dīn Šafā), born in Qom (Iran) on December 4, 1918 and died in Paris on April 17, 2010, is an Iranian writer, historian, journalist and diplomat
Khonyagar Dar Khoon
Fereydoun Farrokhzad was an Iranian singer, actor, poet, TV and radio host, writer, and political opposition figure. He is best known for his variety TV show "Mikhak-e Noghrei".
Sunday, 12 May 2019
BahaiGari
Ahmad Kasravi was a notable Iranian linguist, historian, nationalist and reformer. Born in Hokmabad, Tabriz, Iran, Kasravi was an Iranian Azeri.
Thursday, 25 April 2019
Islam
Islam is an Abrahamic monotheistic religion teaching that there is only one God, and that Muhammad is the messenger of God. It is the world's second-largest religion with over 1.8 billion followers or 24% of the world's population, most commonly known as Muslims.
Wednesday, 27 March 2019
Div e Moghadas
Sayyid Ruhollah Mūsavi Khomeini, known in the Western world as Ayatollah Khomeini, was an Iranian politician and marja
Thursday, 28 February 2019
Mohakemeh Khoda
Khuda or Khoda is the Persian word for "Lord" or "God". Originally, it was used in reference to Ahura Mazda (the name of God in Zoroastrianism). Other Iranian languages also use it.
Friday, 22 February 2019
Muhammed By Shamim AlRoshdie
The Quran is the central religious text of Islam. Muslims believe it represents the words of God revealed by the archangel Gabriel to Muhammad.
Tuesday, 19 February 2019
"KofrNameh" By Karro
Carpete Dharryan was a literary writer and poet of the Armenian Aristocracy in the name of Karro (November 16, 1306 in Hamadan, dated July 27, 2007 in California).
Sunday, 17 February 2019
Kohan Diara
Farah Diba was born on 14 October 1938 in Tehran to an upper-class family. Born as Farah Diba, she was the only child of Captain Sohrab Diba and his wife, Farideh Ghotbi.
Saturday, 16 February 2019
"Before Iranian Revolution" By Bahram Choobineh
The Iranian Revolution refers to events involving the overthrow of the Pahlavi dynasty under Mohammad Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Friday, 15 February 2019
Rish Nameh
Those beliefs considered as guidelines for governors and statesmen. There is an important role for beliefs such as the principle of unity of God and believing in it
Monday, 28 January 2019
"Hajviat" By Ubayd-i Zakani
Nizam al-Din Ubaydullah Zakani, or simply Ubayd-i Zakani, was a Persian poet and satirist of the 14th century (Mongol Period) from the city of Qazvin.
Sunday, 27 January 2019
Khoda
Armin Navabi (born 25 December 1983) is an Iranian Canadian ex-Muslim atheist and secular activist, author and podcaster, currently living in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
Sunday, 20 January 2019
"Ayat E Sheitani" By Salman Rushdi
The Satanic Verses is Salman Rushdie's fourth novel, first published in 1988 and inspired in part by the life of Muhammad. As with his previous books, Rushdie used magical realism and relied on contemporary events and people to create his characters.
Saturday, 5 January 2019
"Hazaliat" By Molavi
Rumi's works are written mostly in Persian, but occasionally he also used Turkish, Arabic, and Greek, in his verse. His Masnavi (Mathnawi), composed in Konya, is considered one of the greatest poems of the Persian language.
Tuesday, 1 January 2019
Sharm
Ahmed Salman Rushdiewas born on 19 June 1947 in Bombay, then British India, into a Kashmiri Muslim family. He is the son of Anis Ahmed Rushdie, a Cambridge-educated lawyer-turned-businessman, and Negin Bhatt, a teacher.
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