Art & Culture January 5, 2017 3 This Day in History 30 Iranian Ancient Artifacts January 5 Today is Thursday; 16thof the Iranian month of Dey 1395 solar hijri; corresponding to 6th of the Islamic month of Rabi as-Sani 1438 lunar hijri; and January 5, 2017, of the Christian Gregorian Calendar. 1414 solar years ago, on this day in the year 603 AD, the 24-year war broke out Repatriated From Italy between the Iranian and Roman Empires, as a result of assassination of Emperor Maurice, who was a close ally of the Sassanid Emperor, Khosrow Parviz, since he had, TEHRAN (IRNA) – 30 Iranian years earlier, helped him regain the throne by defeating the usurper Bahram Chubin. ancient artifacts were repatriated 1313 lunar years ago, on this day in 125 AH, Hisham ibn Abdul-Malik, the 10th self- to Iran in cooperation with Italian styled caliph of the usurper Omayyad regime, died after an oppressive rule of 20 years cultural property police, Cultural over an empire stretching from Spain and southern France in the west to the borders of China and India in the east. Hisham was the murderer of Imam Mohammad Baqer Heritage, Handicrafts and Tourism (AS), the 5th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). He also brutally martyred Organization Deputy Chief the 5th Imam’s younger brother, Zaid ibn Ali and had the body mutilated after taking Mohammad Hassan Talebian said. it out from the grave. Hisham was notorious for his misery, despite accumulating a Talebian told IRNA on Wednesday vast treasure that his troops brought as loot from different parts of Africa, Europe, and Asia. He was succeeded by his nephew, Waleed, who refused to give him any shroud that an Italian collection owner had or burial, saying Hisham has left no legitimate and lawful income, and whatever he had previously bought some artifacts accumulated was through plunder and seizure. Seven years after him, the Omayyad from different places like Bangkok dynasty was thrown into the dustbin of history with the rise of the equally oppressive among which there were 30 Iranian Abbasid usurpers. artifacts and some from India and 1178 solar years ago, on this day in 838 AD, Babak Khorrami was executed in Samarra on the orders of the Abbasid caliph, Mu’tasim-Billah, after he was captured by China. the Iranian governor of Azarbaijan and Armenia, General Afshin Khaydaar bin Kavous, ‘Italian cultural property police who crushed the 20-year long Khorramdin rebellion. Babak (Papak in Persian) was not followed up the issue and informed well known outside academic circles until the 20th century, when due to Soviet nation- the Iranian embassy and then some building efforts and the Khorramdin cult’s following of the teachings of Mazdak with Iranian cultural heritage experts its communist and socialist themes, he was proclaimed a national hero in the Azerbaijan Soviet Socialist Republic. In Iran, Babak was discovered by Reza Shah Pahlavi since it went there to identify those related suited his anti-Islamic and pseudo nationalist policies to magnify pre-Islamic themes. to Iran,’ Talebian said. 1175 solar years ago, on this day in 842 AD, Mu’tasim-Billah, the 8th self-styled The repatriated artifacts have been caliph of the Abbasid usurper regime, died at the age of 48 after a reign of nine years, and displayed for one month in National was succeeded by his son, Watheq-Billah (born to a Greek concubine named Qaratis). Museum of Iran since Tuesday. Mu’tasem was the son of the tyrant Haroun Rashid’s Turkic concubine – a singing- Persian Artifacts Repatriated From Italy dancing slave girl named Marida – and took over the caliphate on the death of his step- brother, Mamoun. He favoured the Turks and gave them all authority to the resentment of the Iranian and Arab Muslims. He opposed the Mu’tazallite or Rationalistic doctrine Tehran to Host Top Storytellers of the World of his predecessor. It was on his orders that Ijtihad was forbidden and of the several jurisprudential schools of the newly designated sect Ahl as-Sunnah wa’l-Jama’at, only TEHRAN (IBNA)– Cultural Affairs Department of CIDCYA, of the names of the instructors of year. This is while some parts of four, that is, Hanafi, Maleki, Shafei, and Hanbali, were decreed as official. Mu’tasem and Artistic Creations Bureau of the 19th edition of the International the Center and others, including the festival were formerly held in has earned lasting notoriety for martyring through poison, Imam Mohammad at-Taqi al-Jawad (AS), the 9th Infallible Heir of Prophet Mohammad (SAWA). Iran’s Center for the Intellectual Storytelling Festival will evaluate the grandparents who presented non-competitive sections. News 897 lunar years ago, on this day in 541 AH, Imad od-Din Zangi, the Atabeg of Mosul, Development of Children and the related works in six sections, stories with educational themes in this section of the festival will Aleppo, Hama and Edessa and founder of the Turkic Zangid dynasty that ruled parts Young Adults (CIDCYA) will host in five days. The secretariat of the and Iranian-Islamic style of living, soon be announced. of Syria, was killed by his European slave, Yarankesh, shortly after repulsing a joint 57 storytellers from Iran and the festival has announced the addition the Center have taken the first steps Cultural and Artistic Creations Byzantine-Crusader army. His father, Aq Sunqur al-Hajeb, was governor of Aleppo under world, from February 15 to 18. of two general and adolescent toward holding this festival. Bureau of CIDCYA in Tehran Malik Shah I, the Isfahan-based Seljuq sultan of Iran- Iraq-Syria-Anatolia. Imad Zangi distinguished himself in military exploits against the European Crusader, and defeated According to IBNA sections and also increased the It is also interesting to mention will host 57 storytellers from King Fulk of the usurper Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem (Bayt al-Moqaddas). The Zangid correspondent, quoting from the days of the competition. that foreign storytellers will also Iran as well as some international dynasty ended with the rise of the Kurdish adventurer, Salah od-Din Ayyoubi of Mosul. Public Relations and International Therefore, with the announcement participate in the competition this participants in February. 622 lunar years ago, on this day in 816 AH, the Iranian scholar and literary figure, Ali ibn Mohammad al-Hussaini al-Jorjani Astarabadi, known popularly as Mir Seyyed Sharif, passed away in Shiraz. He was a prominent figure of the Timurid era and was a student of the renowned scientist of his day, Qotb od-Din Raazi. He authored several Lighting Plan to Archeological Exploration on books, including “Risalat-al-Kubra fi’l-Manteq” (The Major Treatise in Logic). Among his students were Seyyed Mohammad Nourbakhsh, the founder of the Nourbakhshiya Sufi order, and Shaikh Abi Jamhour al-Ahsa’i of Arabia. Be Devised for Charmshahr-Varamin Highway to Abyek 425 solar years ago, on this day in 1592 AD, Shah Jahan, the Moghal emperor of TEHRAN (RICHT) - Scientific well as the losses that beginning and center of the northern half of Iran. Hindustan (Northern Subcontinent), was born at Lahore. Tehran archeological explorations have been continuation of the development would It should be noted that a team of 412 solar years ago, on this day in 1605 AD, Spanish poet and novelist, Miguel de Cervantes published in Madrid the first edition of his magnum opus “El Ingenioso started with the aim of identifying the inflict in the absence of archeologists. journalists and archeologists who Hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha” or Book One of Don Quixote. TEHRAN (Tehran Municipality) ancient zones and historical monuments Mosaddeqi said in terms of ecology, were on an inspection tour of the 326 solar years ago, on this day in 1691 AD, the first currency note or paper money in - A comprehensive plan for public located on the trajectory and limits of the 160-km Charmshahr-Abyek famous Dayr Gachin incidentally Europe was printed and distributed by Sweden’s Stockholm Bank. The credit for paper lighting in the capital Tehran will the highway in south of Tehran from highway project is in progress in part noticed a widespread road building money actually goes to China several centuries earlier. be devised by the end of current Charmshahr in Varamin up to Abyek in of the southern areas of what is called operation along the western side 208 solar years ago, on this day in 1809 AD, the Treaty of Dardanelles was signed fiscal year in March, according to a between London and Istanbul, according to which Britain pledged to withdraw forces Qazvin. “north of the Iran Plateau Center” or in of Qom-Garmsar highway to the from all Ottoman territories, including Egypt. In return, the Ottoman Empire pledged to member of the Lighting Committee According to the Public Relations other words “Tehran Plain”. west. recognize the consular rights of Britain in Ottoman lands. The goal behind this treaty by of the Tehran Beautification Office of the Research Institute According to him, the highway passes After inspection of the of the site on Britain was to maintain the security of the British fleet in the Mediterranean in the face Organization (TBO), affiliated to of Cultural Heritage and Tourism in the east from the southern latitudes implementation of the development of possible attacks by the Russian Navy through the Black Sea, because according to this Tehran Municipality. treaty the Ottoman Empire agreed not to allow any warship to pass through the Bosporus (RICHT), Farshid Mosaddeqi, the of Varamin, Rey and Robat Karim project by the dispatched group, Strait and the Dardanelles during peacetime. Once the project is finalized, administrator of the exploration plains, in the center from geographical various reports and scientific and 111 lunar years ago, on this day in 1327 AH, the 6th Qajarid king of Iran, Mohammad all the urban lighting projects program said prior to the field studies latitudes of arid areas with less technical analyses were published in Ali Shah, was forced by the constitutionalists to revive the Majlis (parliament), which in the capital should follow the in two documentary reports, the population and scattered settlements terms of the cultural heritage on the he had dissolved two years earlier, shortly after succeeding his father, Mozaffar od- regulations stipulated in the plan, status quo and progressing condition of Shahriyar plain and in the west from geographical location, extension and Din Shah, to the Peacock Throne. A repressive and inefficient ruler, he had earlier said Babak Seyrafi, according to bombarded the parliament building with the help of the British and Russian forces. He of the bypass in south of Tehran has southern and southwestern latitudes of parts for the building of the bypass in was soon deposed by the constitutionalists, and on being replaced by his 11-year old the public relations of the TBO. been prepared and presented to the Nazarabad plain and the salty basins of south of Tehran. son, Ahmad Shah, he fled to Russian-ruled Odessa (present day Ukraine), from where Based on the comprehensive Archeology Institute. the north and northeast in Eshtehard. Meanwhile, the permission for he plotted his return to power. Two years later he landed at Astarabad on the Caspian Sea plan, all residential, commercial, He said in the first report, based on the However, he added the overall profile archeological studies about the coast of northern Iran, but his forces were defeated. Mohammad Ali Shah again fled to historical and religious places results of the previous observations, the and local environmental image of the highway passing through Charmshahr Russia, then to Istanbul and later to San Remo, Italy, where he died on 5th April 1925, in the city will be identified for the same year the 140-year rule of the Qajarid Dynasty ended when the British formally Archeology Institute was notified of the area under discussion with their dry and in Varamin to Abyek in Qazvin declared their agent, Reza Khan Pahlavi as the new king, while Ahmad Shah was on an preparation of a uniform lighting importance of archeological surveys in desert climate are in fact a sequence of has been issued by the head of the extended, almost 2-year long visit, to Europe. Every shah of Iran since Mohammad Ali plan. the limits of Charmshahr-Abyek where the widespread natural phenomenon Research Institute of Cultural Heritage Shah has died in exile. “The neon lights and signboards the highway is planned to be built as known as the “desert plain” in the and Tourism. 89 solar years ago, on this day in 1928 AD, Zulfeqar Ali Bhutto, who served as of commercial units have distorted Pakistani foreign minister, president and prime minister, was born in Larnaka, Sindh the city’s urban landscape to to Shahnawaz Bhutto, the prime minister of the Muslim princely state of Junagadh in Gujarat, India. Educated in Bombay and the US, he founded the Pakistan People’s Party a great extent. They are not (PPP) in the 1960s. He was ousted in a military coup in 1977 by the US-backed General in harmony with surrounding Zia ul-Haq, who two years later executed him on charges of murder. Bhutto’s legacy is architecture and contribute to the still alive in Pakistan. His daughter Benazir was to serve as prime minister in the 1990s, huge waste of energy,” Seyrafi before her assassination during the election campaign, while the previous president of Pakistan, Asef Ali Zardari, was his son-in-law. said. 57 solar years ago, on this day in 1960 AD, Russian Orientalist and Iranologist, Dr. He said the lack of desirable Boris Zakhoder, passed away at the age of 62. He conducted numerous studies on Iran’s lighting in green spaces may history and wrote several books including one on the famous Iranian statesman of the create public insecurity, but Seljuqid era, Khwaja Nizam- ol-MolkTusi. more importantly, “the imposing 57 solar years ago, on this day in 1960 AD, the founder of modern Persian poetry, Ali Esfandiari, who wrote under the penname NimaYoushij, passed away. He was born and aggressive lights of many in Yoush village, Mazandaran Province, northern Iran. In Tehran, after completing his shops and commercial units are studies, he studied French and Arabic, and started writing poems. He launched a new inappropriate to their surrounding school of Persian poetry known as blank verse. The important features of his poetry environment and disturbing to include presentation of contemporary topics of important in the community in simple neighborhoods.” and friendly language. He broke away from the classic frameworks in his poetry. The most important work of this prominent Iranian poet is named “Afsaneh”. Two special commissions of 39 solar years ago, on this day in 1978 AD, with the publication of an insulting article the Lighting Committee, ‘Urban in the “Etela’at” daily against the Father of Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), Development and Architecture’ nationwide demonstrations started across the country and the Islamic movement was and ‘Power and Electronics,’ placed on the path to victory. The despotic regime of the British-installed and US- will review the plans submitted supported Shah, thought that by insulting this revered leader, it could undermine his popularity. The insult backfired on the regime and finally on February 11, 1979, the with regard to practicality, Pahlavi potentate was thrown into the dustbin of history. implementation methods, quality 38 solar years ago, on this day in 1979 AD, following collapse of the military and materials for the project. government of Gholam Reza Azhaari and its replacement by Shapour Bakhtiar’s cabinet Opinion of experts in the on the orders of British-installed and US-backed Pahlavi regime, the Father of the Islamic Revolution, Imam Khomeini (RA), declared from his place of exile near Paris commissions will be considered Tehran Bird Garden is located in Lavizan Jungle Park in the Iranian capital, and the jungle surrounding it is a in France that the new government was illegal and the people should continue their before the committee finalizes the rare and unique example of its kind around the world. A good environment is provided for tropical birds, about struggle till the end of monarchic rule. comprehensive plan for public 250 species such as pigeons, parrots, ducks, Black Swan, geese, owls, hawks, eagles, peacocks and more than 20,000 lighting in Tehran before the year others are living in the park. (Courtesy: IRIB English Radio – http://parstoday.com/en) is out. Courtesy: MNA