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Shiraz is located in southwestern Iran on the rudkhaneye khoshk (lit. ' dry river ') seasonal river. Founded in the early Islamic period, the city has a moderate climate and has been a regional trade center for over a thousand years. The earliest reference to the city, as Tiraziš, is on Elamite clay tablets dated to 2000 BCE. [8]
Shiraz is the birthplace of the founder of the short-lived Babi movement, the Báb (Sayyid `Ali-Muhammad Shirazi, 1819-1850). In this city, on the evening of 22 May 1844, he began discussions that led to his claiming to be an interpreter of the Qur'an, the first of several progressive claims between then and 1849.
Shiraz is proud of being mother land of Hafiz Shirazi, Shiraz is a center for Iranian culture and has produced a number of famous poets. Saadi , a 12th- and 13th-century poet was born in Shiraz. He left his native town at a young age for Baghdad to study Arabic literature and Islamic sciences at Al-Nizamiyya of Baghdad .
1400 – Shiraz is known as the city of Saadi and Hafez. Their tombs, still intact today, become shrines. 1410 – Shiraz prospers with a population of 200,000. For a few years it is the capital of the Turkmen Aq Qoyunlu rulers. 1470 – Mongols and Turkmen, the invaders, are soon ousted from the city.
Quddús' travel to Shiraz brought the Báb's claim to the attention of the governor, Husayn Khan, who tortured Quddús and summoned the Báb to Shiraz in June 1845. On October 15, 1845, during Ramadan, the Báb had a confrontation with Islamic clergy (the ulema). [49] Shaykh Abū Turáb, the Imam-Jum'ih of
Mulla Sadra was born in Shiraz, Iran, to a notable family of court officials in 1571 or 1572, [9] In Mulla Sadra's time, the Safavid dynasty governed over Iran. Safavid kings granted independence to Fars province, which was ruled by the king's brother, Mulla Sadra's father, Khwajah Ibrahim Qavami, who was a knowledgeable and extremely faithful politician.
The arrival of Islam with the Persians and Arabs affected the Shirazi identity and social structures in many ways. According to Helena Jerman, the word "Sawahil" among the Shirazi people referred to "free but landless" strata of the society who had adopted Islam, then a new social category on the Swahili coast. [32]
Demonym for Shiraz, a city in southwestern Iran; Shirazi people, a subgroup of the Swahili people inhabiting the Swahili Coast; Abu Ishaq al-Shirazi (1003–1083), a leading Shafi'i scholar who was the first teacher at the Nizamiyya school in Baghdad; Qutb al-Din al-Shirazi (1236–1311), Persian polymath