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Nishapur

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Nishapur [ˌniːʃɑːˈpʊə]
n
(Placename) a town in NE Iran, at an altitude of 1195 m (3920 ft.): birthplace and burial place of Omar Khayyám. Pop.: 135 681 (1991)


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Ali Asghar Chishti, Dean, Faculty of Arabic and Islamic Studies said that the Muslim history is so brilliant with the reference of discovery of knowledge and its spreading, examples are the Madrasa Nizamia Bughdad and Madrassa Nizamia Nishapur.
00 Hardcover BP188 Born in 376/986 to Arab settlers in Khurasan, now part Iran, al-Qushayri studied Sufism from renowned masters in the provincial capital of Nishapur, and became head of the Sufi school.
Hundreds of injured were taken to hospital in Nishapur, hometown of mediaeval poet Omar Khayyam (whose name the stricken village, Khayyam, carries).
 
 
 
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