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Mokhtarnameh (Persian: مختارنامه, lit. ' The Book of Mokhtar ') is an Iranian historical epic television series directed by Davood Mirbagheri, based on the life of Al-Mukhtar, a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led an islamic revolution against the Umayyads in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna.
The Diwan of Attar (Persian: دیوان عطار) consists almost entirely of poems in the Ghazal ("lyric") form, as he collected his Ruba'i ("quatrains") in a separate work called the Mokhtar-nama. There are also some Qasida ("Odes"), but they amount to less than one-seventh of the Divan. His Qasidas expound upon mystical and ethical themes ...
During his time as an apothecary and physician, Attar remained busy with and affected by the ailments of his customers and his Ilāhī-Nama reflects what he learned during his time at the pharmacy. Attar spent his later years in Nishapur, where he remained comfortably retired until he was violently executed as part of a massacre during the ...
Al-Mukhtar ibn Abi Ubayd al-Thaqafi (Arabic: الْمُخْتَار ٱبْن أَبِي عُبَيْد الثَّقَفِيّ, romanized: al-Mukhtār ibn Abī ʿUbayd al-Thaqafī; c. 622 – 3 April 687) was a pro-Alid revolutionary based in Kufa, who led a rebellion against the Umayyad Caliphate in 685 and ruled over most of Iraq for eighteen months during the Second Fitna.
Tazkirat al-Awliyā (Persian: تذکرةالاولیا or تذکرةالاولیاء, lit."Biographies of the Saints") – variant transliterations: Tadhkirat al-Awliya, Tazkerat-ol-Owliya, Tezkereh-i-Evliā etc. – is a hagiographic collection of ninety-six Sufi saints (wali, plural awliya) and their miracles authored by the Sunni Muslim Persian poet and mystic Farīd al-Dīn ‘Aṭṭar of ...
Mukhtaruddin Ahmad Arzoo (14 November 1924 – 30 June 2010) was an Indian literary critic and Writer of Urdu language. He was former Dean of Faculty of Arts at Aligarh Muslim University . [ 1 ] He was appointed as the lecturer in the Department of Arabic at Aligarh Muslim University in 1953.
Most of his poems were written in Persian, Seraiki, Sindhi, Arabic, and Urdu,. [citation needed] His famous Sindhi works were Wahdat Namo (Book of Union) and Surood Namo (Book of Melody). He compiled as many as 23 books on prose and poetry written in Persian, Sindhi, Saraiki, [6] and Urdu: the more known being: Masanavi Riyaz-ul-faqr
Allama Muhammad Iqbal. Sir Muhammad Iqbal also known as Allama Iqbal (1877–1938), was a Muslim philosopher, poet, writer, scholar and politician of early 20th-century. He is particularly known in the Indian sub-continent for his Urdu philosophical poetry on Islam and the need for the cultural and intellectual reconstruction of the Islamic community.