Nishapur

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And he did my favorite Star Wars visions, which is T.O.B.1. And then also... japan stinks as you guys like to call it but he was uh he was the flash animation chief on devil man cry baby so i mean when i saw the trailer for this and saw i was able to go i was all in i was in like flynn i know that some people but this is basically about a girl it's like the life of a girl named uh satira a muslim girl growing up in persia and she becomes a slave um or get sold into slavery into a nice family and they want to teach her they want to educate her with like books and stuff and then it's when the the mongolians and genghis khan takes over genghis khan genghis khan is it genghis khan yeah oh wow i've been saying genghis khan this whole time And then, you know, they capture and raid countries in the Middle East, Nishapur province.

Okay,

technically both pronunciations are correct.

And on the other side, we have Yoko Ono's mend piece here from 2015 with broken crockery and sticky tape, a kind of kintsugi piece, opposite an extraordinary Korean ongi jar, which are still made, these great pickle jars.

We've got Noguchi opposite Nishapur from Iran.

Kazimir Malevich, one of his great teapots opposite Kate Malone, who's a great beloved English potter.

Donald Locke, interesting.

These are the people that Isa alayhi salam had the greatest sort of contention with and greatest sort of animosity toward among the different groups.

So, going back to Abu Hafs al-Naysaburi.

So Abu Hafs al-Naysaburi came from Naysabur with eight of his disciples to visit Al-Junaid in Baghdad and to spend some time with Al-Junaid in Baghdad.

So Al-Junaid hosted them for a year.

And he was so kind to them, was so generous with them.

that Abu Hafs al-Naysaburi blamed him when he left for one thing.

He said, there is so much affectation in your deeds, so much affectation, pretense.

إِذَا جَاءَكَ الْفُقَرَاءَ فَجُعْ مَعَهُمْ إِذَا جَاعُوا وَجْبَعَ مَعَهُمْ إِذَا شَبِعُوا When the fuqara come to you, fuqara is another word for Sufis.

Imam al-Haramein Abdul Malik al-Juwaini, after great discussion, I mean he was one of the greatest theologians, greatest mutakallimeen of the Ash'ari school, a very great Shafi'i scholar, but a scholar also of the Aqidah of Islamic theology.

Before he died, he said, I am dying with the belief or on the belief of the old women of Naysabur.

Trying to say that, that's all I really need to gain success.

All of these complexities are not necessary.

The sultan wanted a very specific person to create this new calendar, and it was this genius mathematician named Omar Khayyam.

Omar Khayyam was born in the city of Nishapur, which is today in the northeastern part of Iran, close to the border with Turkmenistan.

And Khayyam made a name for himself working out these extremely complicated mathematical problems.

So he wrote about algebra and Euclidean geometry and something about cubic equations, I think, is, like, his main thing.

But then, kind of interestingly, he sort of dropped off the face of the historical record.

For 16 years before he died, there's pretty much no mention of him anywhere, and it seems like nobody really knew what he was up to.

All we know is that when it was time for him to die, he returned to the place he was born, and he died sometime around 1131 in the city of Nishapur.

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By Louisa Costello.

one of the most remarkable of persian poets unprecedented in regard to the freedom of his religious opinions the voltaire of persia whose works gave great offence to the priests but are nevertheless highly esteemed by general readers apparently with justice as the animation and brilliancy of his style are unquestionable his hatred of hypocrisy and the tricks of false devotees appears his crime in the eyes of the supposed pious his tolerance of other creeds was looked upon with equal suspicion and dislike He was born at Nishapur and devoted much of his time to the study of astronomy, of which science he was a distinguished professor.

But it is said that, instead of his studies leading him to the acknowledgement of the Supreme Being, they prompted his disbelief.

The result of his reflections on this important subject is given in a poem of his, much celebrated under the title of Rubayat Umar Kayyam.

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Section 4 of A Second Rubaiyat Masalini This LibriVox recording is in the public domain.

Uma of Nishapur by Charles J. Pickering reprinted from the national review december eighteen ninety part one of the comparatively few oriental writers who have become well known in europe alkayam has perhaps been the least fortunate ignored by d'herboulon misrepresented and maligned by von and made the mouthpiece of a purely modern pessimism by his most successful translator the shade of the old hakim were it not long ago well lulled to sleep beneath the ancestral roses might justly have risen in reproach of a misbelieving and unsympathetic generation which deems itself wiser than the children of the dawn the brilliant paraphrase of edward fitzgerald has made the name of ulmar somewhat of a household word as an english poem it is so nearly faultless that for those to whom its haunting music has been a companion of years to balance calmly its merits and defects would be no easy task but when we compare it with the original we are surprised to find how much of the english version is original too and this is not all of the indictment il traduttore traditore runs the italian proverb and rarely could it find an apter illustration than the case in point among a considerable section of his oriental readers as in the parallel case of hafez and since von hummer's time in europe generally humain has had to bear the character of a poetic black sheep following in the track of the author of the geschichte der schönen rede kunste persians the translator while investing his subject with a beauty of rhythm and phrase that reminds us rather of the laureate than of any eastern songster throws the sceptical side of humo's genius into still darker shadow so that the vacillating doubt and despondency of the persian grow in his hands a pan of passionate denial and defiance edward however be unfair to contend that for this there is positively no warrant in the original lawless and uncertain thoughts occur but they seem rather to be thrown out at random stray sparks from the furnace of a fiery spirit ill at ease with itself than parts of a deliberate system of heinesque mockery or of byronic scorn phrases scattered here and there throughout the rubaiyat are given an emphasis and used in the sequence their author would probably have been the first to disown indeed at the outset it would have been better pache the calcutta reviewer to whom we owe a debt of gratitude for his delightful biographical sketch to have taken umar as a mind of the horatian rather than of the lucretian order for system of all things is what is least conspicuous in the kaleidoscopic pages of the rubaiyat well does mr winfield his english editor say with reference to the philosophic kinship of the poet the parallel often sought to be traced between him and lucretius has no existence whatever he was he was not an atheist to him as to other mohammedans of his time to deny the existence of the deity would seem to be tantamount to denying the existence of the world and of himself it must be borne in mind that al-kayam if the bulk of what has come down to us as his be genuine is a man of many moods that he had been initiated into all the mysteries of tazawoof can hardly be questioned even mr fitzgerald who rejects the sufism of hafez and a fortiori that of admits some traditional presumption in favour of this view and that his powerful and original intellect sometimes led him to the threshold of a broader truth faith in which had risen on the basis of an honest doubt which feebler minds so little understood seems no less certain footnote the words of a powerful though obscure english poet of the seventeenth century are here peculiarly applicable in both temperament and experience there was much in common between the two men though truth and falsehood be near twins yet truth a little elder is Be busy to seek her, believe me this.

He's not of none, nor worst, that seeks the best.

But it was said that many had escaped by lying among the corpses and pretending to be dead.

Therefore, at the capture of Nishapur shortly afterwards, it was ordered that all the inhabitants should have their heads cut off.

Three pyramids of heads were made, one of men, one of women and one of children.

As it was feared that some might have escaped by hiding underground, a detachment of soldiers was left to kill any that might emerge.