• Kamal-ol-Molks Style
    • Kamal-ol-Molk founded a new style in Iranian art. Iranian painting before him and even in the early years of his life was ...
    • Mehdi Akhavan Sales
    • ehdi Akhavan Sales (M. Omid) was born in 1928, in Mashhad, Khorasan Province, and ...
    • Abu nasr Farabi
    • Abu Nasr Mohammad Ibn Farakh Farabi was born in a small village Wasij, near Farab in 870 CE. His parents were of Persian descent, but ...
    • Few Words about Ayatollah Motahari
    • “… Although his life was too short, he had left us with the invaluable heritage, which was a shining part of a clear conscience and a soul full of love toward the Islamic ideology….
    • Imam Khomeinis statement on Ayatollah Motahari Martyrdom
    • “Hereby I would express my condolences as well as my congratulation to Islam, the Islamic nation, especially to the resisting nation of Iran for this disaster of loosing the honorable Professor Haj Sheikh Morteza Motahhari (May his spirit be sanctified)..
    • Ayatollah Motaharis Work
    • Ayatollah Motahhari was born in 1299 in Fariman, Khorasan Province. He was interested in learning from his childhood and had a great talent. When he was 12 years old, he learnt the preliminary Islamic Sciences, logic, philosophy...........
    • ALI IBN RABBAN AL-TABARI
    • This accomplished Hakim was the tutor of the unparalleled physician Zakariya al-Razi. Luck favoured the disciple more than the teacher in terms of celebrity. As compared to Razi people know very little about his teacher Ali....
    • The first true scientist
    • For, without doubt, another great physicist, who is worthy of ranking up alongside Newton, is a scientist born in AD 965 in what is now Iraq who went by the name of al-Hassan Ibn al-Haytham. Most people in the West will never have even heard of him.....
    • Shahryar, an emotional poet
    • Seyed Mohammad Hussein Behjat Tabrizi better known by his pen name Shahryar was born in Tabriz, northwestern Iran in....
    • Luminary: Sheikh Mofid
    • Abu Abdullah Mohammad Ibn-e Nu’man, known as Sheikh Mofid, was one of the greatest scholars in theosophy. ...
    • Allameh sayyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee
    • Allameh sayyed Mohammad Hossein Tabatabaee was born in 1281 (solar year) in Tabriz Province. When he was a child, he lost his parents (his mother at 5 and his father at 9)....
    • The Founder of Islamic Republic
    • In 1921 he went to study religious science in Arak at a theology institute there, and a year later he moved to the city of Qom to continue his studies. ........
    • Ernest Hemingway
    • Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), born in Oak Park, Illinois, started his career as a writer in a newspaper office in Kansas City at the age of seventeen...
    • Hossein Behzad
    • Ostad Hossein Behzad is one of the strongest miniaturists in the twentieth century Iran. Born in 1894 in Tehran, he started his artistic career at the age of seven at Molla Ali's pen case shop at his father's ...
    • Shahriar of Tabriz, Iran’s Great Honor
    • Seyed Mohammad-Hossein Behjat  Tabrizi, popularly known as Shahriar, was bom in Tabriz in 1904. He was taught reading and writing at an early age by his mother whom he loved dearly. He finished his secondary e...
    • Abu Raihan Biruni
    • uni  (The Iranian greatest astronomer and mathematician in the Islamic world) Abu Raihan Biruni was one of the greatest astronomers and mathematicians in the Islamic world, indeed the world as a whole. Abu Raih...
    • Sohrab Sepehri
    • Poet and painter Sohrab Sepehri was born in 1928 in Kashan Iran. After obtaining his high school diploma, he attended and obtained a Bachelor of Arts from Honar-haye Ziba University. In the first twelve ...
    • Master Ali Asghar Tajvidi
    • Ali Asghar Tajvidi was born in 1327 (Shamsi) in Fassa. He finished his elementary educations there and went to Tehran to continue his studies. In 1352m he began to study visual Arts in University of fine Arts in Tehran...
    • Mohammad Reza ATASHZAD
    • He was born in Isfahan; Iran in 1958 is a well-recognized artist throughout Iran as well as abroad in watercolor painting. His degree from Isfahan School of Fine Arts and National University of Iran in Tehran as an ...
    • Mulla Sadra’s Works
    • rks Mulla Sadra was a prolific writer. He did not write at all during his time of seclusion and asceticism and, after that, he was continually involved in teaching and training the students of philosophy who attended h...
    • Martyr Professor Motahari’s books
    • The Islamic Modest Dress Glimpses of Nahj al-Balaghah Eternity of Moral Values Sexual Ethics in Islam and in the Western World Repentance Spiritual Discourses Goal of Life P...
    • Khajeh Nasir Tousi
    • usi (1201 A.D.-1274 A.D) Philosopher, Mathematician, Astronomer, Theologian and Physician Abu Jafar Mohammad Bin Mohammad Bin Hassan Nasir Tousi (or known as Khajeh Nasir Tousi) was born in Tous, Khorasanprovince ofIr...
    • Allameh Seyyed Mohammad Hosein Tabatabaie
    • aie He was the philosopher, Gnostic and interpreter of the holy Quran. He lost his mother at 5 and his father at 9 years old. He finished his early educations in Tabriz. He studied jurisprudence, essential, philosophy, Gn...
    • Hafez, a Persian Mystic Poet
    • Khwajah Shams al-Din Muhammad Hafez-e Shirazi (also spelled Hafiz)was a Persian mystic and poet. He was born sometime between the years 1310-1337 in Shiraz , Persia (Iran), son of a certain Baha-ud-Din. Hafez is ...
    • Ayatollah Shirazi
    • azi (Feb 25, 1892 – September 29, 1984) Ayatollah Sayyed Abdullah Shirazi was a Grand Ayatollah of Shi'a Islam. He is not to be confused with Grand Ayatollah Mirza Hassan Shirazi of the Tobacco movement, and Ayatollah M...
    • Shihabuddin Yahya Suhrawardi
    • rdi (549-587 A.H./ 1153-1191 A.D.) Mausoleum of Suhrawardi Shihab al-Din Yahya ibn Habash ibn Amirak Abu 'l-Futuh Suhrawardi was born in the village of Suhraward near modern Zamjan in Persia. In time he would be cal...
    • Abu Bakr Mohammad Bin Zakariya Razi
    • Abu Bakr Mohammad Bin Zakariya al-Razi , was a versatile Persian Philosopher , who made fundamental and lasting contributions to the fields of me...
    • Avicenna
    • nna (Born at Kharmaithen, in theprovince of Bokhara, 980; died at Hamadan, Persia, 1037) [Note: Avicenna was actually Persian, not Arabian] Ibn Ali Al-Hosain bin Abdallah bin Sina, called by the Latins AVICENNA was...
    • Ayatollah Sheik Fazlullah Nouri
    • uri (1843-1 August 1909 ) Sheik Fazlullah was born in 1843. Finishing primary years of education, He left Iran for Najaf and later in 1299 immigrated to Samara to enjoy Mirza Shirazi’s excellence. Finally in 1883 he ...
    • Martyr Mostafa Chamran
    • ran (1311-31 Khordad 1360/1932-21 June 1981) Chamran was born in 1932 inTehran. At 15, he began his activities with Islamic associations, participating in classes of commentary on the Qur'an by Late Ayatollah Taleghan...
    • Ghiyath al Din Jamshid Masud Kashi
    • shi (about 1380 in Kashan, Iran-22 June 1429 in Samarkand, Transoxania [now Uzbek]) Details of Jamshid Kashi's life and works are better known than many others from this period although details of his life are sketc...
    • Abu Abd Allah Muhammad ibn Isa Al-Mahani
    • ani ( about 820 in Mahan,Kerman,Persia - 880 inBaghdad, Iraq) There is very little information regarding al-Mahani's life. We do know a little about al-Mahani's work in astronomy from Ibn Yunus's astronomical handbook al-Zi...
    • Omar Khayyam,
    • The Astronomer-Poet of Persia 18 May, the commemoration day Omar Khayyam lived between 1044 and 1123 CE. His full name was Ghiyath al-Din Abul Fateh Omar Ibn Ibrahim Khayyam . Omar Khayyam was an outstanding mat...
    • Sheikh Sadough
    • ugh The Memorial Day 5 May Mohammad bin Ali bin Hosein bin Babvieh Qomi, renowned as "Sheikh Sadough" was born in 917 in a pious, scientist family from Qom. (Some had also reported 918 or 919 for his birth y...