also known as Jal�l ad-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī (جلال‌الدین محمد رومی), but known to the English-speaking world simply as Rumi,30 September 1207 17 December 1273), was a 13th-century Persian poet, Sunni Islamic jurist, and theologian. Rūmī is a descriptive name meaning "the Roman" since he lived most of his life in an area called Rūm because it was once ruled by the Byzantine Empire. According to tradition, Rumi was born in Balkh, Bactria, in contemporary Afghanistan, which at that time was part of the Persian Empire. The hometown of his father's family; however, some Rumi scholars believe that he was born in Wakhsh, a small town located at the river Wakhsh in what is now Tajikistan. Wakhsh belonged to the larger province of Balkh, and in the year Rumi was born, his father was an appointed scholar there. Both these cities were at the time included in the Greater Persian cultural sphere of Khor�s�n, the easternmost province of historical Persia, and were part of the Khwarezmian Empire. His birthplace and native language both indicate a Persian heritage. Due to quarrels between different dynasties in Khor�s�n, opposition to the Khwarizmid Shahs who were considered devious by Bah� ud-Dīn Walad (Rumi's father) or fear of the impending Mongol cataclysm, his father decided to migrate westwards. Rumi's family traveled west, first performing the Hajj and eventually settling in the Anatolian city Konya (capital of the Seljuk Sultanate of Rum, now located in Turkey), where he lived most of his life, composed one of the crowning glories of Persian literature and profoundly affected the culture of the area.

Author: PersianInfidel
Keywords: ryanfl PersianInfidel Iran Persia music poem islam iranian
Added: December 30, 2008

Storm From The East: While Europe was still divided into a patchwork of feudal states, there emerged from the East a vast empire that eventually spanned the breadth of Asia. It had been forged under the banner of one of the greatest generals in history, Genghis Khan, and ruled by men who, a generation before, had been simple nomadic tribesmen. This documentary traces the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire, describing the great storm that revolutionized the trade of goods and ideas in the medieval world and shattered the Euro-centric view of science and culture. The Mongols introduced the first international currency, built and projected vast highways across the Asian grasslands, and carved out the major political groups of modern Asia. The Mongol invasion of Khwarezmia lasted from 1219 to 1221. It marked the beginning of the Mongol Conquest of the Islamic States, and it also expanded the Mongol invasions, which would ultimately culminate in the conquest of virtually the entire known world, save for Western Europe, Fennoscandia, the Byzantine Empire, Arabia, Africa, Indian subcontinent, Japan and parts of Southeast Asia. Ironically, it was not originally the intention of the Mongol Khanate to invade the Khwarezmid Empire. Indeed, Genghis Khan had originally sent the ruler of the Khwarezmid Empire, Ala ad-Din Muhammad , a message greeting him as his equal: "you rule the rising sun and I the setting sun." The Mongols' original unification of all "people in felt tents", unifying the nomadic tribes in Mongolia and then the Turcomens and other nomadic peoples, had come with relatively little bloodshed, and almost no material loss. Even his invasions of China, to that point, had involved no more bloodshed than previous nomadic invasions had caused. It would be the invasion and utter destruction and complete devastation of the Khwarezmid Empire which would earn the Mongols the name for bloodthirsty ferocity that would mark the remainder of their campaigns. In this brief war, lasting less than two years, not only was a huge empire destroyed utterly, but Genghis Khan introduced the world to tactics that would not be seen again until the Germans used them so well in World War II - indirect attack, and complete and utter terror and slaughter of populations wholesale as weapons of war. - Igor Boiar

Author: khanbaliq
Keywords: mongolia persian empire iran iraq war arab islam religion crusades uzbekistan culture afghanistan sex scene silk road prophet muhammad world europe soviet union nazi germany china чинги�хан монголь�ка� импери� татары
Added: September 3, 2008

An introduction and my personal experiences with social anxiety and phobia.

Author: Khwarezmian
Keywords: social anxiety phobia fear mental health
Added: April 4, 2008

Sebastian Heine habibullah Rafi shamshad tv. Pashto is his favorite language, and that really means something, since all in all Sebastian Heine speaks some 35 languages. According to him Zoroaster Zarathustra, Zartosht Zoroastrianism was a pashtun pashton from afghanistan.Ahura Mazda, Avesta Gathas Sassanian Avestan Scythian Ossetian Sogdian Yaghnobi Pamiri Balochi Gilaki Kurdish Mazanadarani زرتشت Parthian Talysh Zazaki Vedic Sanskrit اوستا P�li Persian aryana arier aria saka scaythian alan Khan pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pashtu pakhto pashto pashtoon pashton pashtunistan pakhtunistan pekhwar pekhawr kh همايون خان Hamayun Khan pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pashtu pakhto pashto pashtoon pashton pashtunistan pakhtunistan pekhwar pekhawr khyber waziristan achakzai patan attan atan kabul peshwar ningerhar afghan qandahar kandahar helmand laghman kunar wardak paktia paktiya mardan swat pakhtunkhwa پشاور پښور پښتونستان پښتون پختونستان پختون ا�غانستان ا�غان خيبر Najib haqparast Ahmad Zahir Ahmad Zaher Hangama Malalai joya Nashenas farhad darya Dr. najibullah Karmal baryalai pashtonistan peshwar peshwari pekhwar khyber waziristan hazara tajik herat qandahar paktia ariana Afghanistan afghan pashtoon pashton qandahar kandahar pashto wahid qasimi aman esan obaid karzai achakzai zazai zadran paktia logar kunar nangerhar ningerhar laghman nuristan sawat vally peshwar pekhawar arfan rahim shah mangal naghma sarban qader ashpari habib qaderi atash bayat khorasan chorasan nimroz helmand baghlan paghman balkh mazar sharif samangan faryab farah takhar badakhshan achakzai pakhtunistan pashtonistan afghanistan pakhtunkhwa qandahar herat ghazni laghman nengerhar logar mazar sharif pakhtu pashto pashtu hazaragi tajik sulaiman Layeq afg pashto pakhtu pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pakhtunkhwa khybar pekhwar pekhwari peshwar achakzai qamar gula emal zakhel zakhil afridi Altpersisch, Avestisch, Pahlavi, Baktrisch, Sogdisch, Sakisch, Pashto, Parachi, Ormuri, Wakhi, Yaghnobi, Sanglichi, Ishkahmi, Ossetisch, Yidgha-Munji, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Kurmandschi-Kurdisch, Baluchi, Sanskrit, Pali, Gandhari, Latein, Griechisch, Altirisch, Mittelkymrisch, Gotisch, Usbekisch, Aramäisch, Arabisch, Französisch, Englisch Bactrians Bactria Alania Alans Ossetia Sarmatian Scytho-Sarmatian Khwarezmian Massagetae Scythians sakas ا�غانستان ا�غان

Author: Ajmalsapi
Keywords: Afghan afghanistan afghani pakhtun pashton pashtoon pashtun pakhto pashto pakhtu Sebastian Heine pakhtunkhwa kabul
Added: January 11, 2008

Sebastian Heine habibullah Rafi shamshad tv. Pashto is his favorite language, and that really means something, since all in all Sebastian Heine speaks some 35 languages. According to him Zoroaster Zarathustra, Zartosht Zoroastrianism was a pashtun pashton from afghanistan.Ahura Mazda, Avesta Gathas Sassanian Avestan Scythian Ossetian Sogdian Yaghnobi Pamiri Balochi Gilaki Kurdish Mazanadarani Parthian Talysh Zazaki Vedic Sanskrit P�li Persian aryana arier aria saka scaythian alan Khan pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pashtu pakhto pashto pashtoon pashton pashtunistan pakhtunistan pekhwar pekhawr kh همايون خان Hamayun Khan pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pashtu pakhto pashto pashtoon pashton pashtunistan pakhtunistan pekhwar pekhawr khyber waziristan achakzai patan attan atan kabul peshwar ningerhar afghan qandahar kandahar helmand laghman kunar wardak paktia paktiya mardan swat pakhtunkhwa پشاور پښور پښتونستان پښتون پختونستان پختون ا�غانستان ا�غان خيبر Najib haqparast Ahmad Zahir Ahmad Zaher Hangama Malalai joya Nashenas farhad darya Dr. najibullah Karmal baryalai pashtonistan peshwar peshwari pekhwar khyber waziristan hazara tajik herat qandahar paktia ariana Afghanistan afghan pashtoon pashton qandahar kandahar pashto wahid qasimi aman esan obaid karzai achakzai zazai zadran paktia logar kunar nangerhar ningerhar laghman nuristan sawat vally peshwar pekhawar arfan rahim shah mangal naghma sarban qader ashpari habib qaderi atash bayat khorasan chorasan nimroz helmand baghlan paghman balkh mazar sharif samangan faryab farah takhar badakhshan achakzai pakhtunistan pashtonistan afghanistan pakhtunkhwa qandahar herat ghazni laghman nengerhar logar mazar sharif pakhtu pashto pashtu hazaragi tajik sulaiman Layeq afg pashto pakhtu pashtun pakhtun pakhtu pakhtunkhwa khybar pekhwar pekhwari peshwar achakzai qamar gula emal zakhel zakhil afridi Altpersisch, Avestisch, Pahlavi, Baktrisch, Sogdisch, Sakisch, Pashto, Parachi, Ormuri, Wakhi, Yaghnobi, Sanglichi, Ishkahmi, Ossetisch, Yidgha-Munji, Urdu, Hindi, Farsi, Panjabi, Sindhi, Kurmandschi-Kurdisch, Baluchi, Sanskrit, Pali, Gandhari, Latein, Griechisch, Altirisch, Mittelkymrisch, Gotisch, Usbekisch, Aramäisch, Arabisch, Französisch, Englisch Bactrians Bactria Alania Alans Ossetia Sarmatian Scytho-Sarmatian Khwarezmian Massagetae Scythians sakas اوستا زردشتی زردشت

Author: Ajmalsapi
Keywords: Afghan afghanistan afghani pakhtun pashton pashtoon pashtun pakhto pashto pakhtu Sebastian Heine pakhtunkhwa kabul
Added: January 11, 2008