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Focus on Central Asia´s Islamic Persianate and Pre-Islamic Heritage. Pro regional integration and global cooperation. Sunni. Khorasanism and Persian lang.
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ابو علی سینا:

هر که دنیا خواهد، دانیش آموزد

و

هر که آخرت خواهد, درعمل کوشد

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Buy these books ASAP:

-Lost Enlightenment by F. Starr

-The Heritage of Central Asia: From Antiquity to the Turkish Expansion by R.N. Frye

-A History of the Tajiks: Iranians of the East by Foltz

-Persianate Selves: Memories of Place and Origin Before Nationalism by M. Kia

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Came across this amazing drawing of what seems to be a palace or a garden from Sogdia or Bactria. I tried doing a reverse search but did not find anything.

Would truly appreciate if anyone if gives me some details on where this is supposed to be and who drew it.

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Among the 200 burial mounds found in Noin-Ula (modern Mongolia) it was found this amazing embroidered carpet that shows some guys with non-Turkic features and wearing traditional from Bactrian-Sogdian clothes.

Short thread.

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"A caravanserai in Afghanistan" by Alexander Evgenievich Iacovleff, 1931.

The word کاروانسرای kārvānsarāy is a Persian compound word combining kārvān "caravan" with sarāy "palace" or "house".

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Did you know emissaries from the Kushan Empire might have attended to the commemorative ceremonies for the Dacian War in Rome?

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Huma, one of our great mythological birds, in the Emblem of

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Did you know the name "Roxana" is originally Bactrian? Roxana comes from the Bactrian word "Raoxšna" or "Roshanak", which means "little star".

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One of most important football teams is named "Simorgh Alborz" (#Persian: سیمرغ البرز) after our great mythological bird.

Simorgh represents the northern provinces of Balkh, Samangan (birthplace of Sohrab!), Sar-e Pol, Faryâb and Jawzjân.

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