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  2. Culture of Iran - Wikipedia

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    In Iran, Persian rugs have always been a vital part of the Persian culture. Antique Persian Mashad rug. Iranians were some of the first people in history to weave carpets. First deriving from the notion of basic need, the Persian rug started out as a simple/pure weave of fabric that helped nomadic people living in ancient Iran stay warm from

  3. Iranian religions - Wikipedia

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    Druze faith: an esoteric, monotheistic ethnic religion whose tenets include reincarnation and the eternity of the soul. It was founded by the Persian Hamza ibn Ali ibn Ahmad, an Ismaili mystic from Khorasan, and another important early preacher and 'prophet' of the religion was the Persian ad-Darazi, after whom the religion has taken its name.

  4. Turco-Persian tradition - Wikipedia

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    The composite Turko-Persian, Turco-Persian, [1] or Turco-Iranian (Persian: فرهنگ ایرانی-ترکی) is the distinctive culture that arose in the 9th and 10th centuries AD in Khorasan and Transoxiana (present-day Afghanistan, Iran, Uzbekistan, Turkmenistan, Tajikistan and minor parts of Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan). [2]

  5. Religion in Texas schools? State Board of Education weighs ...

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    Concerns about Bible references in a new state-developed curriculum for elementary school students have percolated at Texas' State Board of Education as board members weigh whether to approve an ...

  6. Iranian Americans - Wikipedia

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    In 2006, the University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center was the recipient of a $10 million donation from an Iranian-American couple based in Houston, Texas. [ 175 ] [ 176 ] The University of Southern California was the recipient of a $17 million gift from an Iranian-American, [ 177 ] as was San Francisco State University which received a ...

  7. Academic relations between Iran and the United States

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    A photo of the teachers of the Memorial School in 1923 on the occasion of the forty-second anniversary of the establishment of this educational institution in Tabriz.. The Memorial School was founded in 1881 and was run by religious missionaries of the American Presbyterian sect. [7] This school was one of the institutions founded by American expeditions that had served in the city of Tabriz ...

  8. Iranian philosophy - Wikipedia

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    In history of Islamic philosophy, there were a few Persian philosophers who had their own schools of philosophy: Avicenna, al-Farabi, Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi and Mulla Sadra. Some philosophers did not offer a new philosophy, rather they had some innovations: Mirdamad, Khajeh Nasir and Qutb al-Din Shirazi belong to this group.

  9. Persianate society - Wikipedia

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    They re-asserted the Persian identity over many parts of West Asia and Central Asia, establishing an independent Persian state, [46] and patronizing Persian culture [22] They made Iran the spiritual bastion of Shi’ism against the onslaughts of orthodox Sunni Islam, and a repository of Persian cultural traditions and self-awareness of Persian ...