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Amazing illustrations of Tajikistan by Mikhail Romanyuk, a graphic designer and illustrator from NY, USA.

Strong Central Asian vibes.

When I was at university and had an important exam, my father would always make me the same question in Persian after the exam: "Shir ya Robâh" (شیری یا روباه, "Lion or Fox")?

If I it was good, I would say "Shir" ("Lion"). If the opposite, "Robâh" ("Fox").

Drawing of a cavalryman. Most likely Ghaznavid.

Unknown author.

"Tajik Family" by the Chinese artist Ren Jimin.

Drawing of a man playing the Herati Dutâr.

"Dutâr" is a traditional Khorasani string instrument. Classical Dutâr has only two strings ("Dutâr" literally means "two strings" in Persian) while the modified Herati version has fourteen strings.

#Afghanistan #Khorasan

#Tajikistan

عاشق این ضرب المثل هستم که یک بار از دهان یک دوست کابلی شنیدم:

مهمان آمدن به دست خودش

رفتن به دست صاحب خانه

Ghaznavids had such massive armies, that a contemporary historian claimed they “assembled, like locusts or ants, innumerable, and as immeasurable as the sand of the desert."

Tang Dynasty officials farewells Sogdian caravan, Ginkgostory.

Abu Sa'id Abolkheyr and Ibn Sina corresponded with one another. The first meeting was a three days of private conversation, at the end of which Sa’īd said that everything that he could see, Ibn Sina knew, and in turn Sina said that everything he knew Sa’īd could see.

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