This 10th-century earthenware bowl, in the style commonly associated with Nishapur, an ancient city in what is now northeastern Iran, is a shining example of Samanid epigraphic slipware, one of ...

Today, his mausoleum is located in Nishapur. It was built by Ali-Shir Nava'i in the 16th century. Every year, a number of literati and scholars gathered at the mausoleum of the Persian poet Attar of ...

Iran’s Beauties in Photos: Attar of Nishapur March, 25, 2014 - 10:25 TEHRAN (Tasnim) - Abu Ḥamid bin Abu Bakr Ibrahim, better known by his pen-names Farid ud-Din and Attar, was a Persian ...

The Mongol horde led by Genghis Khan himself had arrived outside Nishapur shortly after the spring blossoms in April 1221. The Mongols had covered the grasslands and their small tents had cropped ...

TEHRAN, Apr. 13 (MNA) – Iranians commemorate the National Day of Attar Nishapuri or Neyshaburi, a 12th-century great Iranian poet whose “The Conference of Birds” is a masterpiece illuminating the ...