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Nasir Khusraw (also written as Nasir Khusrao or Nasir-i-Khusraw) was a scholar, Persian poet and an Ismaili Pir or theologian, who was especially well-known in the northern areas of Pakistan , parts of China, Afghanistan and Central Asia. He was born in 1004 , in Qubadiyan , Afghanistan / Tajikistan . He died in 1089 and was buried in Yumgan , Afghanistan.1
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Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī [also spelled as Nasir Khusrow and Naser Khosrow ] (1004 - 1088 AD ( , ) was a Persian poet, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar and a traveler.He was born in Qubadyan , a village in middle-age Bactria in modern Tajikistan and died in Yamagan , a village in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan.He is considered as one of the great poets and writers in Persian literature , the Safarnama , an account of his travels, being his most famous work.
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He was born in Qabodiyon , a village in middle-age Bactria in eastern Iranian province of Khorasan , now present-day in modern Afghanistan and died in Yamagan , now Afghanistan .He is considered one of the great poets and writers in Persian literature .The Safarnama , an account of his travels, is his most famous work.
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Persian poet and philosopher "Naser Khosrow" redirects here.Abu Mo’in Hamid ad-Din Nasir ibn Khusraw al-Qubadiani or Nāsir Khusraw Qubādiyānī Balkhi also spelled as Nasir Khusrow and Naser Khosrow (1004 – 1088 CE) ( ) was a Persian poet, philosopher, Isma'ili scholar, traveler and one of the greatest writers in Persian literature .He was born in Qabodiyon , a village in Bactria in the ancient Greater Iranian province of Khorasan , now in modern Tajikistan and died in Yamagan , now Afghanistan . He is considered one of the great poets and writers in Persian literature . The Safarnama , an account of his travels, is his most famous work and remains required reading in Iran even today.Chapter on Mısır Fâtımîleri ve Aleviler 'in Pamir Teşkilâtı .Internet Encyclopædia of Philosophy . 2005."Nāṣir-i Khusraw - born 1004, Qubādiyān, Merv, Khorāsān [Iran]—died c. 1072, /77, Yumgān, Badakshān, Central Asia [now in Afghanistan]), poet, theologian, and religious propagandist, one of the greatest writers in Persian literature" .
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11th-century Persian poet, scholar and philosopher "Naser Khosrow" redirects here.Nasir Khusraw ( ; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was a Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary ( da'i ) for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate .Despite being one of the most prominent Isma'ili philosophers and theologians of the Fatimids and the writer of many philosophical works intended for only the inner circle of the Isma'ili community, Nasir is best known to the general public as a poet and writer who ardently supported his native Persian tongue as an artistic and scientific language.All of Nasir's philosophical Isma'ili works are in Persian, a rarity in the Isma'ili literature of the Fatimids, which primarily used Arabic .Nasir was a key figure in the spread of Isma'ilism in Central Asia .He is with great reverence called "Pir" or "Shah Sayyid Nasir" by the Isma'ili community of Badakhshan (split between Afghanistan and Tajikistan ) and their branches in northern Pakistan , who all consider him to be their founder.
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11th-century Persian Isma'ili poet, scholar, philosopher, and missionary "Naser Khosrow" redirects here.Nasir Khusraw ( Persian : ناصرخسرو ; 1004 – between 1072–1088) was an Isma'ili poet, philosopher, traveler, and missionary ( da'i ) for the Isma'ili Fatimid Caliphate . Despite being one of the most prominent Isma'ili philosophers and theologians of the Fatimids and the writer of many philosophical works intended for only the inner circle of the Isma'ili community, Nasir is best known to the general public as a poet and writer who ardently supported his native Persian tongue as an artistic and scientific language. All of Nasir's philosophical Isma'ili works are in Persian, a rarity in the Isma'ili literature of the Fatimids, which primarily used Arabic . Nasir was a key figure in the spread of Isma'ilism in Central Asia . He is with great reverence called "Pir" or "Shah Sayyid Nasir" by the Isma'ili community of Badakhshan (split between Afghanistan and Tajikistan ) and their branches in northern Pakistan , who all consider him to be their founder.
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