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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 ...
Aligned with his proficiency as an apothecary, Attar uses alchemy to mean the transformation of the body into heart and of the heart into pain. [3] The text also contains high praise for the Prophet through Sufi-style mystical poetry, as Attar writes: Muhammad is the exemplar to both worlds, the guide of the descendants of Adam.
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.
The Conference of the Birds or Speech of the Birds (Arabic: منطق الطیر, Manṭiq-uṭ-Ṭayr, also known as مقامات الطیور Maqāmāt-uṭ-Ṭuyūr; 1177) [1] is a Persian poem by Sufi poet Farid ud-Din Attar, commonly known as Attar of Nishapur.
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.
Mokhtar came from the Arabic word which means Chosen. It is used as both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: Surname: Mokhtar Mokhtar (born 1954), Egyptian footballer; Youness Mokhtar (born 1991), Dutch-Moroccan footballer; Given name: Mokhtar Belmokhtar (born 1972), Algerian sentenced to death for murder and terrorism
Among his Urdu poetry are Daftar-e-Bemisal (1869), Armugan (1875), Armugani (1884). Daftar-e-Bemisal was praised by Ghalib. In Sukhan-e-Shuara (1874) and Tazkiratul Muasirin he introduced Urdu and Persian poets. He translated Persian poet Fariduddin Attar's Pand Name into Urdu under the title of Chashma-e-Faez in 1874.