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    • Ayatollah Morteza Motahari
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    • AYATULLAH KHOEI
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    • Aliakbar Sanati
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    • Saadi Shirazi
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    • Farid o-Din Attar
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    • ′Allamah Sayyed Muhammad Husayn Tabataba′i
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    • Parvin Etesami
    • Famous Iranian poetess (9 March 1906–1941) Parvin was the daughter of Yusuf E’tesami Ashtiani (a.k.a E’tesam ol-Molk). Born in 9 March 1906 in Tabriz, she studied at an American Girls College in Iran. She is con...
    • Al-RAZI (Rhazes)
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    • Hamid Ajami
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    • Master Mohammad Baqer Aqamiri
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    • Sultan Mohammad Khoda Bandeh (Aljaito)
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    • Sanai′i
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    • Khajou Kermani (Khwaju Kermani)
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    • Ladan and Laleh Bijani
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    • Mahmoud Farshchian
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    • Roudaki Samarqandi
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    • Seyed Abdol-Hossain Dastgheib
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    • The Martyrdom of Ayatollah Dr. Mohammad Mofatteh
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    • Ahmad Keshvari
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    • Mirza Kouchak Khan Jangaly
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    • Mohammad Ali Rajai
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    • Dr. Mohammad Javad Bahonar
    • nar (1933 _ 30 August 1981) Mohammad Javad Bahonar was born in 1312 (1933) in Kerman. At the age of 5, he entered the tradition school of maktab to learn Qur'an and when he was 11, he entered "Ma...
    • Abu Reihan Biruni
    • uni Abu Reihan Muhammad Ibn Ahmad Biruni was born of Persian parentage in Khwarazm in 362 H [973 A.D.].He spent his chilhood in khawrazm. He was interested in Biological studying as gathering samples of palnts and se...
    • Ferdosi
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    • Ibn Khaldun
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    • 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
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    • 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...
    • 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
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    • 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
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