Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
PR6068.U757 H37 1990. Followed by. Luka and the Fire of Life. Haroun and the Sea of Stories is a 1990 children's novel [1] by Salman Rushdie. It is Rushdie's fifth major publication and followed The Satanic Verses (1988). It is a phantasmagorical story that begins in a city so miserable and ruinous that it has forgotten its name.
You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work; to remix – to adapt the work; Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made.
Baháʼu'lláh was born in Tehran, Iran, on 12 November 1817. Baháʼí authors trace his ancestry to Abraham through both his wives Keturah [14] and Sarah, [b] to the prophet Zoroaster, [16] to King David's father Jesse, [17] and to Yazdigird III, the last king of the Sassanian Empire. [18] His mother was Khadíjih Khánum, [19] [c] his father ...
Balkrishna Shamsher Jang Bahadur Rana or Bala Krishna Sama (Nepali: बालकृष्ण सम; 8 February 1903 – 20 June 1981) was a Nepalese dramatist. For his great contributions to Nepali literature, he was awarded the title Natya Siromani (Crest-jewel of playwright).
The 1953 Iranian coup d'état, known in Iran as the 28 Mordad coup d'état ( Persian: کودتای ۲۸ مرداد ), was the U.S.- and British-instigated, Iranian army-led overthrow of the elected Prime Minister Mohammad Mosaddegh in favor of strengthening the monarchical rule of the shah, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, on 19 August 1953, with one of ...
Siyâvash. Siyâvash ( Persian: سیاوش, via Middle Persian Siyâwaxš, from Avestan Syâvaršan) or Siyâvoš or Siavash ( Persian: سياووش) is a major figure in Ferdowsi 's epic, the Shahnameh. He was a legendary Iranian prince from the earliest days of the Iranian Empire. A handsome and desirable young man, his name literally means ...
Gholam Reza Afkhami. Gholam Reza Afkhami is an Iranian-born American scholar, author, educator, and a former Pahlavi Iran government official. [1] He is the senior scholar and director of Social Science Research and International Studies at the Foundation for Iranian Studies. The Foundation for Iranian Studies is a Bethesda, Maryland -based ...
Up to 16,000 killed [9] Unknown. The Expedition of Shuja ul-Mulk began in January 1833, whilst the siege of Kandahar began on 10 May 1834, and ended on 1 July 1834. [10] The expedition was led by Shah Shuja Durrani, the deposed Afghan Emperor who wished to re-claim his throne. Shah Shuja rallied forces while in exile in the Sikh Empire and ...