• Irwin Shaw
    • Shaw (February27, 1913-May16, 1984) Irwin Shaw (1913-1984), born and educated in New York City, where he received a B.A. from Brooklyn College in 1934, Shaw began his career as a scriptwriter for popular radio prog...
    • Edna St. Vincet Millay
    • illay   (February22, 1892-October19, 1950)   Millay, Edna St. Vincent, American poet, One of the most popular poets of her era, Millay was admired as much for the bohemian freedom of her youthful li...
    • W. H. Auden
    • en February21, 1907-September29, 1973)) Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh Auden),1907–73, Anglo-American poet, b.York, England, educated at Oxford. A versatile, vigorous, and technically skilled poet, Auden ranks among the m...
    • Victor Hugo
    • Hugo ( February26,1802-May22,1885) Novelist, poet, and dramatist, the most important of French Romantic writers. In his preface to his historical play CROMWELL (1827) Hugo wrote that romanticism is the liberalism of...
    • Jabir Ibn Haiyan
    • ont-family: tahoma">Jabir Ibn Haiyan (Died 803 CE) Jabir Ibn Haiyan, the alchemist Geber of the Middle Ages, is generally known as the father of chemistry. Abu Musa Jabir Ibn Hayyan, sometimes called al-Harrani a...
    • IBN SINA
    • NA (Known in the West as Avicenna) (980-1037 A.D.)   Abu Ali al-Hussain Ibn Abdullah Ibn Sina was born in 980 A.D. at Afshana near Bukhara. The young Bu Ali received his early education in Bukhara, and by ...
    • SHIRAZ
    • Shiraz- Provincial Capital of Fars, Altitude 1,600 meters, 500 km S of Esfahan (935 km from Tehran) , 300 km N-E of Bushehr , 600 km E of Abadan. The city of roses and nightingales, the city of poets and philosophers...
    • Life of Rumi
    • Rumi Reason is powerless in the expression of Love. Love alone is capable of revealing the truth of Love and being a Lover. The way of our prophets is the way of Truth. If you want to live, die in Love; die in...
    • Esfahan
    • Esfahan embodies the greatness of ancient Persia. Located in virtually the middle of Iran, the city was once the capital of the Persian kingdom, a lush green oasis rounded by vast deserts of sand and salt.
    • Abu Rayhan Muhammad ibn Ahmad Biruni
    • we know that he began his studies at a very early age under the famous astronomer and mathematician Abu Nasr Mansur. Certainly by the age of seventeen al-Biruni was engaged in serious scientific work, for it was in 990 that he computed the latitude of Kat
    • Farid al-Din Attar
    • ttar Greatest Sufi poet, Farid al-Din 'Attar, was born in Nishapur, in northeastern Iran, in 1142 (/1119/1120/1136).His father was pharmacist and he received an excellent education in medicine, Arabic, and theoso...
    • Abu lHasan Ali ibn Ahmad Al-Nasawi
    • sawi (about 1010 in possibly Nasa,Khurasan-about 1075 in possibly Baghdad, Iraq) Nothing was known about al-Nasawi in Europe until 1863 when Woepcke published information on a manuscript containing a work by al-Nasawi on ele...
    • Brief Biography of Dr. Ali Shariati
    • ti Dr. Ali Shariati was born in Mazinan, a suburb of Mashhad, Iran. He completed his elementary and high school inMashhad. In his years at the Teacher'sTraining College, he came into contact with youth who were fro...