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Of
One Essence is the Human Race,
Thusly has Creation put the Base.
One Limb impacted is sufficient,
For all Others to feel the Mace.
The Unconcern'd with Others' Plight,
Are but Brutes with Human Face.
Shaykh Muslih
al-Din Sa'di Shirazi
Translated by Iraj Bashiri
Copyright 2003
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Prepared by
Professor Iraj Bashiri
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2001
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Introductory Note:
The
cultures of Central Asia and Iran share a number of
remarkable features. They are Islamic, albeit Sunnite and Shi'ite, and they enjoy a common cosmology and
mythology. Additionally, they share the same early history. Indeed, until
the rise of the Western Turks and the subsequent coming of the Turks and
Mongols to Central Asia, the primary
population of the region was Iranian. As descendants of the earlier
Indo-European peoples, they followed the teachings of Zoroaster and
worshiped his God, Ahura Mazda.
From
the foregoing, we can conclude that any social, political, or ideological
study of the early history of this region must take this common heritage
into consideration. To respect the shared values of the Iranian and the
Central Asian peoples, therefore, shared materials are accessible from both
the Iran and Central Asia pages. The more recent events, however,
appear under either "Central Asia" or "Iran".
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