My favourite Romano-British mosaic from Lincolnshire for #LincolnshireDay :) The 4thC Horkstow 'chariot race' mosaic http://www.caitlingreen.org/2015/02/roman-mosaics-from-lincolnshire.html …pic.twitter.com/Y9z7CDp7kb
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Rūdakī's mausoleum in Rūdak, Panjakent, #Tajikistan - audio slide-show: http://bit.ly/1O8e3hF - Children recite #Rūdakī's sweet poems
1000 years after #Rūdakī: Lāyeq [#Loiq] Shēr-'Ali,* #Tajik poet - audio slideshow http://bit.ly/1OB1awJ |*http://bit.ly/1Vh6IAP #Iranica
Lāyeq [#Loiq] Shēr-'Ali recites one of his Persian poems | #Tajikistan #Poetryhttps://youtu.be/GQsNkNz7FLg
The #Sāmānids - by RN Frye (The Cambridge History of Iran, Vol. 4,* Ch. 4): http://bit.ly/2wry1hG | *http://bit.ly/2fCGkR5
If only the dirham could talk & tell us of its journey & about the lives of those who carried it & exchanged it.
Cont.) The Samanids being far from the Abbasid Court, paid merely lip service to the Abbasids & did what they pleased in their own dominion.
Cont) Modern Iranian literature flourished under the Samanids. Think of the Khorāsānī School of Literature. | Rūdakī http://bit.ly/2yiCvMl
Incidentally, Samanids were not Arab, but Iranian. They preserved Iranian language & culture. | Isma'il ibn Ahmad http://bit.ly/2fIyzwI
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