enow.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Culture of Iran - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Iran

    The Persian language has been often dubbed as the most worthy language of the world to serve as a conduit for poetry. [29] Azerbaijani literature has also had an effect on Iran's literature with it being developed highly after Iran's first reunification in 800 years under the Safavid Empire, whose rulers themselves wrote poetry. [30]

  3. Persianate society - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persianate_society

    Persian miniature from the Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp: Rustam asleep, while his horse Rakhsh slays a lion, fol. 118r. Girl With Mirror.Qajar dynasty art.. A Persianate society is a society that is based on or strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art and/or identity.

  4. Turco-Persian tradition - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Persian_tradition

    The composite Turko-Persian, Turco-Persian, [1] or Turco-Iranian (Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی) is the distinctive culture that arose in the 9th and 10th centuries AD in Khorasan and Transoxiana (present-day Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and minor parts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). [2]

  5. Persianization - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persianization

    Persianization (/ ˌ p ɜːr ʒ ə ˌ n aɪ ˈ z eɪ ʃ ə n /) or Persification (/ ˌ p ɜːr s ɪ f ɪ ˈ k eɪ ʃ ə n /; Persian: پارسی‌سازی، پارسِش), is a sociological process of cultural change in which a non-Persian society becomes "Persianate", meaning it either directly adopts or becomes strongly influenced by the Persian language, culture, literature, art, music ...

  6. Iranian Americans - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iranian_Americans

    Iranian Americans, also known as Persian Americans, are United States citizens or nationals who are of Iranian ancestry, or who hold Iranian citizenship.. Most Iranian Americans arrived in the United States after 1979, as a result of the Iranian Revolution and the fall of the Iranian monarchy, with over 40% settling in California, specifically Los Angeles.

  7. Academic relations between Iran and the United States

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_relations_between...

    A photo of the teachers of the Memorial School in 1923 on the occasion of the forty-second anniversary of the establishment of this educational institution in Tabriz.. The Memorial School was founded in 1881 and was run by religious missionaries of the American Presbyterian sect. [7] This school was one of the institutions founded by American expeditions that had served in the city of Tabriz ...

  8. Persians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persians

    Persians (/ ˈ p ɜːr ʒ ən z / PUR-zhənz or / ˈ p ɜːr ʃ ən z / PUR-shənz) are a Western Iranian ethnic group who comprise the majority of the population of Iran. [4] They share a common cultural system and are native speakers of the Persian language [6] [7] [8] as well as of the languages that are closely related to Persian.

  9. American Institute of Iranian Studies - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Institute_of...

    The American Institute of Iranian Studies (AIIrS) is a non-profit consortium of US universities and museums, founded in 1967, for the purpose of promoting Iranian and Persian studies. AIIrS facilitates academic and cultural exchange between the US and Iran and is dedicated to supporting scholars and funding research in Iranian Studies .