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  2. Culture of Iran - Wikipedia

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    One very popular dessert drink in Iran, "sherbet sharbat-portagal", is made from a mixture of orange peel and orange juice boiled in thin sugar syrup and diluted with rose water. Just like the people of many Middle Eastern countries the most preferred drink of the people of Iran is tea (without milk) or "kakhve-khana". [81]

  3. Iranian literature - Wikipedia

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    The earliest surviving literary works in an Iranian language are that of the religious texts of the Avesta, written in Avestan, an Old Iranian sacred language.The oldest part of these are the Gathas (𐬔𐬁𐬚𐬁, Gāθā, "hymn"), that are a collection of hymns believed to be composed by Zoroaster, the reformer of the ancient Iranian religion and the founder of Zoroastrianism, dating to ...

  4. Iranian peoples - Wikipedia

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    The term "Persian" (Arabic: فُرس, romanized: Furs, Persian: فارس, romanized: Fars) is more often used in English partly due to the fact that "Iran" was known in the western world as "Persia". In 1959, the government of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi , Reza Shah's son, announced that both "Persia" and "Iran" could officially be used ...

  5. Persian literature - Wikipedia

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    Very few literary works of Achaemenid Iran have survived, partly due to the destruction of the library at Persepolis. [11] Most of what remains consists of the royal inscriptions of Achaemenid kings, particularly Darius I (522–486 BC) and his son Xerxes. Many Zoroastrian writings were destroyed in the Islamic conquest of Iran in the 7th century.

  6. Arabic literature - Wikipedia

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    Arabic literature (Arabic: الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both as prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.The Arabic word used for literature is Adab, which comes from a meaning of etiquette, and which implies politeness, culture and enrichment.

  7. Literature in Iran - Wikipedia

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    Arabic literature began to develop in Iran following the Muslim conquest. The Semitic Arabic language, from which many words were borrowed into the languages of Iran and whose script replaced Iran's earlier writing systems, was used largely by Iranian authors in the medieval era, as it functioned as an international language throughout the ...

  8. Iranian Arabs - Wikipedia

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    Iranian Arabs (Arabic: عرب إيران ʿArab-e Īrān; Persian: عرب‌های ايران Arabhā-ye Irān) are the citizens of Iran who are ethnically Arab. [4] In 2008, their population stood at about 1.6 million people. [5]

  9. Persian mythology - Wikipedia

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    Researchers believe that before the power of the Medes, a branch of Aryans migrated from Iran to India. That is why the ancient forms of Indian mythology are very similar to the ancient forms of Iranian mythology. The mythology of Iran was greatly influenced by the myths of the native peoples of the Iranian plateau and the myths of the Middle ...