Nishapur

Nishapur, today Neyschabur or Neyshabour, Persian نیشابور, is a city in a high mountain in the province of Razavi Khorasan in Iran. Through it leads the Silk Road.

History

The Sasanian Iran ( 224-651 ) played a significant role in the transmission of knowledge between East and West: At the universities of the country ( particularly in Nisibis and Nishapur ) focused its attention among other things, medicine, law and philosophy. You rezipierte the Greco-Roman knowledge, conversely came through Iran also knowledge in the West. The missionary activity of the Manicheans and Nestorians in China increased from their starting.

The town was 820 according to the residence of the Persian dynasty of Tahirids so that she could quickly develop into a center of Persian and Arabic. With the conquests of the Saffarids, ultimately, Nishapur was lost in 873 the Tahirids.

Nishapur is valid for the year 1000 with 125,000 inhabitants as the eighth largest city in the world and Persia is to be attributed.

In the 11th century there were in Baghdad and at Nishapur, the largest university libraries of the time (see: National Library of Baghdad ).

Attractions

  • Tomb of the Persian poet, mathematician and polymath Omar Khayyam.
  • The mausoleum of the Persian poet Attar Fariduddin, built by the Timurid politicians and artists ʿ Alī Mīr Shir Nawā'ī (1441-1501) in Herat.

Railway accident

When railway accident in Nishapur at least 320 people were killed in 2004, exploded as toxic chemicals.

Twinning

  • Afghanistan Balkh, Afghanistan
  • Turkmenistan Merv, Turkmenistan
  • Uzbekistan Bukhara, Uzbekistan
  • Uzbekistan Samarkand, Uzbekistan

Famous sons and daughters

  • As- Sulami ( born April 16, 936 ), Islamic mystics
  • Omar Khayyam ( * ca 1048, † 1123), Persian mathematician, astronomer, philosopher and poet
  • Fariduddin Attar ( * ca 1136; † ca 1220 or November 3, 1221 ), Islamic mystic and Persian poet; was visited against 1219 of then young Jalal ad-Din Rumi in Nishapur
  • Haji Wali Baktasch (13th century), Persian mystic and itinerant preacher in Anatolia
  • Mohammad Hussein Nasserani ( 14th century), built the then largest and most modern shopping mall in Nishapur with about 100 stores
  • Muslim ibn al - Hajjaj (* 817 or 821, † 875 ), is the author of the most important collection of Islamic Hadith addition to the collection of al- Bukhari
  • Hossein Vahid Khorasani ( born January 1, 1921), is an Iranian Grand Ayatollah
  • Al - Quschairi (* 986, † 1072 ) was a renowned Sufi and Qur'anic commentator of the 11th century, who also wrote a famous representation of Sufism: Al- Risala
  • Badi ' (* 1852 † July 1869 in Tehran ), is the title of Aqa Buzurg -i - Nishapuri. He delivered the epistle of Baha'u'llah to Naser ad -Din Shah and was killed because of
  • Mohammad Reza Shafi'i Kadkani ( b. 1939 ) is a Persian poet of modern poetry as well as high school teacher and commentator of classical texts
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