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Nimatullah (other)
Nimatullah, also spelled Ni'matullāh, Nematollah etc. ( ar, نعمة الله ) is an Arabic male given name. Etymology Unlike Persian " Nima", whether used as masculine and usually feminine name, may have been possibly adopted from the neighbouring Arabic noun-adjective "نِعْمَة - ''ni‘mah / ni‘amah''" - basic meaning: "blessing" or other meanings: "abundance; benefaction; beneficence; blessing; boon; favor; grace; kindness", for example, a lesser-composite Muslim masculine name like "نِعْمَةُ ٱلله - ''Ni‘mat’Ullah / Ni‘amat’Ullah'' - Blessing of Allah (God)" or a secondary meaning in the following sentence explained. However, this "نِعْمَة - ''ni‘mah / ni‘amah''" denoted and referenced in the Quran is meant as "the Favour(s)/ Grace of Allah (God)". People * Shah Nimatullah Wali (1330–1431), Islamic scholar and Sufi poet * Ignatius Ni'matallah (–1587), Syriac Orthodox Patriarch of Antioch *Nimat Allah al-Harawi (fl. 1613–1630), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Persian Language
Persian (), also known by its endonym Farsi (, ', ), is a Western Iranian language belonging to the Iranian branch of the Indo-Iranian subdivision of the Indo-European languages. Persian is a pluricentric language predominantly spoken and used officially within Iran, Afghanistan, and Tajikistan in three mutually intelligible standard varieties, namely Iranian Persian (officially known as ''Persian''), Dari Persian (officially known as ''Dari'' since 1964) and Tajiki Persian (officially known as ''Tajik'' since 1999).Siddikzoda, S. "Tajik Language: Farsi or not Farsi?" in ''Media Insight Central Asia #27'', August 2002. It is also spoken natively in the Tajik variety by a significant population within Uzbekistan, as well as within other regions with a Persianate history in the cultural sphere of Greater Iran. It is written officially within Iran and Afghanistan in the Persian alphabet, a derivation of the Arabic script, and within Tajikistan in the Tajik alphabet, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi
Ayatollah Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi (1923/24 in Najafabad, Isfahan province – 2006 in Tehran) was an Iranian cleric, scholar and proponent of Islamic Unity, who spent most years after the Iranian revolution of 1979 under house arrest. The Special Court for the Clergy had ordered that he do not teach and receive students. His writings were censored. Background Nematollah Salehi Najafabadi was born in 1923/24 and studied in Isfahan with Rahim Arbab and Mohammad Hasan Alem Najafabadi. Later he continued his studies in Qom with Tabatabai and Boroujerdi. He wrote Shahid-e Javid (The Eternal Martyr), which he started to conceive in 1961. It radically reinterpreted early Shii history. Despite the author's house arrest, it is in its fifth printing in Iran. Many books have been published in response to it, including by such distinguished ulama as Ayatollah Motahari (d. 1979) and Ayatollah Mohammad-Reza Golpaygani (d. 1993). In his essay Vahdat-e Islami, Najafabadi advo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
