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Hace 1 día · Mohammed Reza Pahlavi (26 October 1919 – 27 July 1980), commonly referred to in the Western world as Mohammad Reza Shah, or just simply The Shah, was the last monarch of Iran.
Hace 3 días · Tahmasp I ( Persian: طهماسب یکم, romanized : Ṭahmāsb or تهماسب یکم Tahmâsb; 22 February 1514 – 14 May 1576) was the second shah of Safavid Iran from 1524 until his death in 1576. He was the eldest son of Shah Ismail I and his principal consort, Tajlu Khanum . Tahmasp ascended the throne after the death of his father on 23 May 1524.
Hace 20 horas · Muhammad (/ m oʊ ˈ h ɑː m ə d /; Arabic: مُحَمَّد, romanized: Muḥammad [mʊˈħæm.mæd]; c. 570 – 8 June 632 CE) was an Arab religious, social, and political leader and the founder of Islam. According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet divinely inspired to preach and confirm the monotheistic teachings of Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets.
Hace 5 días · Misunderstanding of how essentially fragile Sultan ʿAlāʾ al-Dīn Muḥammad Khwārezm-Shah’s apparently imposing empire was, its distance away from the Mongols’ eastern homelands, and the strangeness of new terrain all doubtless induced fear in the Mongols, and this might partly account for the terrible events with which ...
Hace 5 días · Initially Reza Khan wished to declare himself president in the style of Turkey’s secular nationalist president, Mustafa Kemal Atatürk —a move fiercely opposed by the Shiʿi ulama—but instead he deposed the weak Aḥmad Shah in 1925 and had himself crowned Reza Shah Pahlavi.
Hace 5 días · The Taj Mahal, in Agra, Uttar Pradesh state, India, designated a World Heritage site in 1983. Shah Jahān died a prisoner on February 1, 1666, at the age of 74. He was, on the whole, a tolerant and enlightened ruler, patronizing scholars and poets of Sanskrit and Hindi as well as Persian.
Hace 3 días · Silent motion picture of President John F. Kennedy and First Lady Jacqueline Kennedy greeting Shah Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Farah of Iran on their arrival at Washington International Airport, Washington, D.C. Included are scenes of President and Mrs. Kennedy walking to a speakers stand with the Shah and Queen, President Kennedy and the Sh...
