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Gorgani (other)
Gorgani ( fa, گرگانی, link=no) means "of or related to Gorgan", a city in north of Iran. *Gorgani language Gorgani or Gurgani is a nisba that refers to the city of Gorgan (also known as "Astarabad" and "Jurjan"), and may refer to: * Fakhraddin Gorgani (fl. 1050), Persian poet *Rostam Gorgani, mid-16th century Persian physician who lived in India *Abul Qasim Gurgani, Sufi *Mohammad Alavi Gorgani, Iranian Twelver shi'a marja See also * Gorgan (other) *al-Jurjani *Astarabadi Astarabadi ( fa, استرآبادی) is an Iranian surname, derived from the city of "Astarabad" (former name of Gorgan) in northern Iran. It may refer to: * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858 or 1859 – 1921), Iranian writer, satirist, and women's m ... {{disambig Gorgani ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorgan
Gorgan ( fa, گرگان ; also romanized as ''Gorgān'', ''Gurgān'', and ''Gurgan''), formerly Esterabad ( ; also romanized as ''Astarābād'', ''Asterabad'', and ''Esterābād''), is the capital city of Golestan Province, Iran. It lies approximately to the north east of Tehran, some away from the Caspian Sea. In the 2006 census; its population was 269,226, in 73,702 families. History There are several archaeological sites near Gorgan, including Tureng Tepe and Shah Tepe, in which there are remains dating from the Neolithic and Chalcolithic eras. Some other important Neolithic sites in the area are Yarim Tepe, and Sange Chaxmaq. Also, the nearby Shahroud Plain has many such sites. The number of confirmed Neolithic sites on the Gorgan Plain now totals more than fifty. According to the Greek historian Arrian, Zadracarta was the largest city of Hyrcania and site of the "royal palace". The term means "the yellow city", and it was given to it from the great number of orang ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iran
Iran, officially the Islamic Republic of Iran, and also called Persia, is a country located in Western Asia. It is bordered by Iraq and Turkey to the west, by Azerbaijan and Armenia to the northwest, by the Caspian Sea and Turkmenistan to the north, by Afghanistan and Pakistan to the east, and by the Gulf of Oman and the Persian Gulf to the south. It covers an area of , making it the 17th-largest country. Iran has a population of 86 million, making it the 17th-most populous country in the world, and the second-largest in the Middle East. Its largest cities, in descending order, are the capital Tehran, Mashhad, Isfahan, Karaj, Shiraz, and Tabriz. The country is home to one of the world's oldest civilizations, beginning with the formation of the Elamite kingdoms in the fourth millennium BC. It was first unified by the Medes, an ancient Iranian people, in the seventh century BC, and reached its territorial height in the sixth century BC, when Cyrus the Gr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorgani Language
Gorgani or Gurgani is the extinct language of the city of Gorgan in northern Iran, neighboring Mazanderani. It is documented from the 14th and 15th centuries, from the writings of the Horufi movement. References Northwestern Iranian languages Caspian languages {{Iran-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nisba (onomastics)
In Arabic names, a ' ( ar, نسبة ', "attribution"), also rendered as ' or ', is an adjective indicating the person's place of origin, tribal affiliation, or ancestry, used at the end of the name and occasionally ending in the suffix ''-iyy(ah)''. , originally an Arabic word, has been passed to many other languages such as Turkish, Persian, Bengali and Urdu. In Persian, Turkish, and Urdu usage, it is always pronounced and written as '. In Arabic usage, that pronunciation occurs when the word is uttered in its construct state only. The practice has been adopted in Iranian names and South Asian Muslim names. The can at times become a surname. Original use A "relation" is a grammatical term referring to the suffixation of masculine -''iyy'', feminine ''-iyyah'' to a word to make it an adjective. As an example, the word ''‘Arabiyy'' () means "Arab, related to Arabic, Arabian". forms are very common in Arabic names. Use in onomastics Traditional Arabic names do not in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fakhraddin Gorgani
Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani, also spelled as Fakhraddin Asaad Gorgani ( fa, فخرالدين اسعد گرگانی), was an 11th-century Persian poet. He versified the story of Vis and Rāmin, a story from the Arsacid (Parthian) period. The Iranian scholar Abdolhossein Zarrinkoub, however, disagrees with this view, and concludes that the story has its origins in the 5th-century Sasanian era. Besides Vis and Rāmin, he composed other forms of poetry. For example, some of his quatrains are recorded in the ''Nozhat al-Majales''. Biography Fakhruddin As'ad Gurgani was born in Jorjan or Gorgan (Persian: گرگان, also Romanized as Gorgān, central city of Hyrcania in north of Iran. Gurgani accompanied the Seljuq ruler Tughril during his campaigns in Iran. When Tughril seized the major Iranian city of Isfahan from the Kakuyids in 1051, he appointed a certain Amid Abu'l-Fath Muzaffar as its governor. Gurgani thereafter settled in Isfahan, where he established good relations ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rostam Gorgani
Rostam Gorgani was a mid-16th century Persian physician who lived in India. Rostam Gorgani was the court physician of two of the rulers of the Deccan sultanates, Malik Ahmad Shah I (1490–1510) and Burhan Shah I (1510–1553), in the city of Ahmadnagar in the Deccan Plateau, India. His name indicates he was from Gorgan, Golestan, Iran. He composed several medical treatises in Persian, the most extensive being the ''Zakhirai-Nizamshahi'' (Supplies of Nizamshah), his encyclopaedia of material medica which he compiled at the request of Sultan Nizam-Shah and named after him. Only two copies survive, one at the Manuscript Institute of the National Academy of Sciences of Azerbaijan, and the other at the National Library of Medicine of the United States. See also *List of Iranian scientists References *C.A. Storey, ''Persian Literature: A Bio-Bibliographical Survey''. Volume II, Part 2: E.Medicine (London: Royal Asiatic Society, 1971), p. 244 *Fateme Keshavarz, ''A Descriptive ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abul Qasim Gurgani
Shaykh Abul Qasim Gurgani (990/380–1058/450 AH) (Persian:ابو القاسم گرگانی) was an Iranian Sufi of Kubruwia Sufi tariqah as well as other Sufi orders. Shaykh Gurgani authored a book titled "Fusūl al-Tarīqah wa Fusūl al-Haqīqah". His grave is located in a small village, three kilometers south of Torbat Ḥeydarīyeh in Iran. Early life He was born in Gorgan in 380 AH. He received the spiritual Knowledge of Sufism Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ... from the master of Abu Usman Almaghribi. Companions His spiritual successor was Abubakr NisajBiographical article, Daira Maarif Buzurg Islami, Iran and some other disciples were. * Abu Ali al-Farmadi * Khwaja Ali Hallaj * Abubakr Abdullah Tusi References Iranian Sufis People from Gorg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mohammad Alavi Gorgani
Grand Ayatollah Sayyid Mohammad Ali Hosseini Alavi Gorgani ( fa, سيد محمد على حسينى علوى گرگانى; March 1940 – 15 March 2022) was an Iranian Twelver Shi'a marja. He was born in a religious family in Najaf, Iraq. He rose to a leading scholar in Najaf, and moved to Qom after the fall of Pahlavi Iran in 1979. Ayatollah Alavi Gorgani studied under the late Ayatollah Bourujerdi, Ayatollah Khomeni, Ayatollah Mohammad Ali Araki, and Ayatollah Golpaygani. Alavi Gorgani died on 15 March 2022. See also * Reza Ostadi * List of Marjas Maraji are the supreme legal authority for Twelver Shia Muslims. The following articles contain lists of Maraji: * List of current Maraji'' * List of deceased Maraji'' See also *Marja' *Ijtihad *Hawza *Risalah (fiqh) *List of Ayatollahs *List of ... * Hashemi Rafsanjani References 1940 births 2022 deaths Iranian grand ayatollahs Iranian people of Iraqi descent People from Najaf People from Gorgan {{is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gorgan (other)
Gorgan is a city in Golestan Province, Iran. Gorgan ( fa, گرگان, link=no) may also refer to: * Gorgan, Kermanshah, village in Kermanshah Province, Iran * Gorgan, Markazi, village in Markazi Province, Iran * other name for German, Iran, village in Kharqan Rural District, Bastam District, Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran * Gorgan-e Bitaraf, another village in Kharqan Rural District, Bastam District, Shahrud County, Semnan Province, Iran * Gorgan County, in Golestan Province, Iran * Gürgan, village in Baku, Azerbaijan * Gorgan, a village in the commune Cenade, Alba County, Romania * Gorgan (river), a tributary of the Cozd in Brașov County, Romania * Great Wall of Gorgan, ancient defensive fortifications located near the above-named Gorgan in Golestan Province * Gorganrud River, a river in northeastern Iran See also * Gorgani (other) Gorgani ( fa, گرگانی) means "of or related to Gorgan", a city in north of Iran. * Gorgani language Gorgani or Gurgani is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Al-Jurjani
Al-Jurjani or simply Jurjani may refer to any of several historical Persian scholars: * Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurjani (died 845), mathematician and astronomer * Al-Masihi, Abu Sahl al-Masihi al-Jurjani (960–1000), physician and teacher of Avicenna * Abd al-Qahir al-Jurjani (died 1078), scholar of the Arabic language, literary theorist and grammarian * Zayn al-Din al-Jurjani (1040–1136), royal Islamic physician and author of the ''Thesaurus of the Shah of Khwarazm'' * Al-Sharif al-Jurjani (1339–1414), Sunni Hanafi The Hanafi school ( ar, حَنَفِية, translit=Ḥanafiyah; also called Hanafite in English), Hanafism, or the Hanafi fiqh, is the oldest and one of the four traditional major Sunni schools ( maddhab) of Islamic Law (Fiqh). It is named ... Muslim scholar * Rustam Jurjani, 16th century physician who lived in India and author of the ''Supplies Of Nizamshah'' See also * Gorgani (other) * Astarabadi {{DEFAULTSORT:Jurjani Arabic-language sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Astarabadi
Astarabadi ( fa, استرآبادی) is an Iranian surname, derived from the city of "Astarabad" (former name of Gorgan) in northern Iran. It may refer to: * Bibi Khatoon Astarabadi (1858 or 1859 – 1921), Iranian writer, satirist, and women's movement leader * Fazlallah Astarabadi (c. 1340–1395), Iranian mystic, founder of the Ḥurūfī movement * Mirza Mehdi Khan Astarabadi (18th century), Iranian Chief Minister * Muhammad Ali Astarabadi (15th century), Iranian physician * Muhammad Amin al-Astarabadi (died 1626), Iranian theologian See also *Gorgani (other) *al-Jurjani Al-Jurjani or simply Jurjani may refer to any of several historical Persian scholars: * Abu Sa'id al-Darir al-Jurjani (died 845), mathematician and astronomer * Al-Masihi, Abu Sahl al-Masihi al-Jurjani (960–1000), physician and teacher of Avice ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Astarabadi Persian-language surnames Astarabadi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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