Female Muslim lawyer Shirin Ebadi ( winner of the 2003 Nobel Peace Prize ) has been described as the ' conscience of the Islamic Republic ' for her work in protecting the human rights of women and children in Iran.

* Shirin Shukurov — Hero of the Soviet Union.

Esmail Mehrtash, a tar player and musician, established Jame ' eh Barbod in 1926, where operettas such as " Leili & Majnoun ", " Khosrow & Shirin " as well as " Khayyam " went on stage.

According to the Nizami epic Khosro & Shirin, Khosro's courtship with Shirin began in earnest when Shirin overheard Barbad singing of the king's love for her in a neighbouring tent.

* Shirin Ebadi, Iran Awakening: A Memoir of Revolution and Hope, Random House ( May 2, 2006 ), ISBN 1-4000-6470-8

Examples of dramatic poetry in Persian literature include Nizami's two famous dramatic works, Layla and Majnun and Khosrow and Shirin, Ferdowsi's tragedies such as Rostam and Sohrab, Rumi's Masnavi, Gorgani's tragedy of Vis and Ramin, and Vahshi's tragedy of Farhad.

On April 20, 2004, SFU conferred honorary degrees upon three Nobel Peace Prize recipients: the 14th Dalai Lama, Bishop Desmond Tutu, and human rights activist Shirin Ebadi.

Due to her patience and understanding Shirin becomes one of the most respected Queen regent | Queen s in the One Thousand and One Nights.

Other notable figures include Human Rights Lawyer Shirin Ebadi who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, pioneering architect Heydar Ghiai, prominent philosopher Hossein Nasr and reformist cleric Mehdi Karroubi.

Shirin Ebadi: is an Iranian lawyer, a former judge and human rights activist and founder of Defenders of Human Rights Center in Iran.

* 1989 May-The 40th National Planting Festival is held in the Kamiyama Shirin Park.

* 2004 October-The 28th National Planting Festival is held in Kamiyama's Shirin Park.

* Shirin Shahr which is to provide housing for the sugar industry personnel.

She converted to Islam, taking the name " Shirin " ( lit.

" Articulating Gender: An Anthology Presented to Professor Shirin Kudchedkar.

According to Shirin Ebadi – an Iranian lawyer and former judge who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2003, and later became the main representative of Kazemi's family at the trial over Kazemi's death – when a prison staff member saw Kazemi taking photographs he demanded that she give him her camera, as photography is prohibited in front of the prison.

Shirin Ebadi reports that security officials searched the house of an unnamed friend that Kazemi had been staying at, and " kept asking " her friend about Kazemi's "‘ medical condition ’ and what medicines she took daily.

Shirin Ebadi was the main representative of Kazemi's family at the trial, and represented them at the second and third sessions of Aghdam-Ahmadi's trial, which took place on July 17 – 18, 2004.

She is currently Fawzia Shirin, having remarried in 1949 and having her royal titles no longer recognized by the Egyptian government after the Egyptian Revolution of 1952.

On 28 March 1949, in Cairo, Princess Fawzia married Colonel Ismail Shirin Bey ( 1919 – 1994 ), who was the eldest son of Husain Shirin Bey and his wife, HH Princess Amina Bihruz Khanum Effendi.

The names of assistant secretaries: Deputy treasurer-SM Fazlul Huq, assistant organizing secretaries-Nasiruddin Pintu ( Dhaka ), Aslam Chowdhury ( Chittagong ), Abdul Momin Talukder Khoka ( Rajshahi ), Manzurul Islam Manju ( Khulna ), Adv Nazrul Islam Khan Rajon ( Barisal ) and Dr Shakhawat Hossain Jibon ( Sylhet ), assistant office secretaries-Abdul Latif Johnny, Shamimur Rahman Shamim and Arshadul Karim Shahin, assistant Publicity secretary-Syed Emran Saleh Prince, assistant Freedom Fighter Affairs secretary-Principal Suhrabuddin, assistant Law secretaries-Adv Nitai Roy Chowdhury, Adv Taimur Alam Khandaker and Adv Khorshed Alam, assistant Education Affairs secretary-Habibul Islam Habib, assistant Social Welfare secretary-Shahbuddin Ahmed, assistant Sport secretary-Raihan Amin Ronny, assistant Cultural Affairs secretary-Abdul Malek, assistant Youth Affairs secretary-Mohibul Alam Swapan, assistant Women Affairs secretaries-Noor-e-Ara-Safa and Shirin Sultana, assistant Religious Affairs secretaries-Joyanta Kumar Kunda, Dipen Dewan and John Gomez, assistant Student Affairs secretary-Sultan Salahuddin Tuku, assistant Labour Affairs secretary-AM Nazimuddin, assistant Agriculture Affairs secretary-Hazi Yasin, assistant Cooperative Affairs secretary-Ashrafuddin Nizan MP, assistant Industries Affairs secretary-Shahjada Mia, assistant Rural Development Affairs secretary-Mozhar Ali Prodhan MP, assistant Swechchhasebak secretary-ABM Mosharraf Hossain, assistant Relief and Rehabilitation secretary-Amjad Hossain MP, assistant Publication Affairs secretary-Shafi Bikrampuri, assistant Information and Research secretaries-Habibur Rahman Habib, Abu Sayeed Khan Khokon and Shakil Wahed Sumon and assistant Gram Sarker Affairs secretary-Saiful Islam Shishir.

In November 2004, after discussions with sister Peace Laureates Dr. Shirin Ebadi of Iran and the late Professor Wangari Maathai of Kenya, Williams took the lead in establishing the Nobel Women ’ s Initiative launched in January 2006 ; she since has served as its Chair.

In the early 1920s, after the death of his father, Feroze and his mother moved to Allahabad to live with his unmarried maternal aunt, Shirin Commissariat, a surgeon at the city's Lady Dufferin Hospital.

Persian nougat, known as Gaz, is a variety that has been produced in Isfahan, Iran and Boldaji, Iran for many centuries by various manufacturers including Boldaji Asli Gaz ( Tahmasebi ), Ashrafi Gaz, Kermani Gaz, Shirin Gaz, Sekkeh Gaz and others.

The situation has gathered international attention including defense of Nobel Laureate attorney Shirin Ebadi in June after she received threats in April warning her against making speeches abroad, and defending Iran's minority Baha ' i community-see Arrest of Bahá ' í leaders.

In 2003, long articles about Shirin Ebadi, Alfred Nobel and Berta von Suttner were published in this magazine.

* Azerbaijani Symphonic composer Arif Malikov bases his Ballet " Legend of Love " on Nazim Hikmet's poetry " Farhad and Shirin ," in Azerbaijan International, Vol.

Other contemporary video artists of note include Gary Hill ( USA ), Arambilet ( Dominican Republic – Spain ), Fred Forest ( France ), Tony Oursler, Mary Lucier, Paul Pfeiffer, Sadie Benning, Paul Chan, Eve Sussman and Miranda July ; Eija-Liisa Ahtila ( Finland ), Kirill Preobrazhenskiy ( Russia ), Pipilotti Rist ( Switzerland ); Surekha ( India ); Stefano Pasquini ( Italy ); Shaun Wilson ( Australia ); Stan Douglas ( Canada ); Douglas Gordon ( Scotland ); Olga Kisseleva ( Russia ); Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven ( Belgium ); Martin Arnold ( Austria ); Matthias Müller ( Germany ), Heiko Daxl ( Germany ); Gillian Wearing ( UK ); Stefano Cagol ( Italy ); Helene Black ( Cyprus ); Shirin Neshat ( Iran / USA ); Aernout Mik ( Netherlands ), Jordi Colomer ( Spain / France ), Sergei Shutov ( Russia ), and Walid Raad ( Lebanon / USA ).

* Her Imperial and Royal Highness Princess Fawzia of Egypt and of Iran, Mrs Shirin ( 1952 – present )

– Shirin

* Shirin u Xusrew by Khana Qubadi ( lived 1700 – 1759 ), published 1975 in Bagdad.

The earliest miniature paintings like the 126 illustrations in the manuscript of Anwar-i-Suhayli ( c. 1550 – 1560 ) in the Victoria and Albert Museum, London and the illustrations in Sindbad Namah in the India Office Library, London and Shirin and Khusrau in the Khudabaksh Library, Patna most probably belong to the period of reign of Ibrahim Quli Qutb Shah.

K. M. Fozdar ( 1898 – 1958 ) and Shirin Fozdar ( 1905 – 1992 ), were the first to introduce the Baha ’ i Faith to Singapore when they settled here in 1950.

In her memoir, Iran Awakening, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Shirin Ebadi states that an estimated 4000-5000 members and supporters of the People's Mujahedin of Iran ( MKO ) were executed during a three-month period in 1988 immediately following the failed " Mersad " rebellion, which was launched upon the end of the Iran – Iraq War by MKO fighters based in Iraq.

Normally, they form the background for the famous Oriental buildings, including forts, palaces, mosques, temples – the Nature blossoms and withers but the stones remain intact … Khosrau, Farhad, Shirin, Bahrām Gōr, Iskander, Layla and Majnun – these characters created by Ferdosi, Nizami and Fizuli, as well as scenes from their poems are often depicted in the carpets, whose style reminds you of the miniatures by the painters of the celebrated Tabriz school flourishing at the time of the Safavids.

New parties include the Maldivian Peoples Party, the Islamic Democratic Party and the Adhaalath Party.

Parties: Afghanistan, Albania, Algeria, Angola, Armenia, Australia, Austria, Bangladesh, Belgium, Benin, Bhutan, Brazil, Bulgaria, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cambodia, Cameroon, Canada, Central African Republic, Chad, Republic of Congo, Cook Islands, Costa Rica, Côte d ' Ivoire, Croatia, Cuba, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Denmark, Djibouti *, Ecuador, Egypt, El Salvador, Eritrea, Estonia, Ethiopia, European Union, Fiji, Finland, France, Gabon, Germany, Ghana, Greece, Guatemala, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Honduras, Hungary, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Islamic Republic of Iran, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Jordan, Kenya, Kyrgyzstan, Kiribati *, Kuwait, Lao Peoples Democratic Republic *, Latvia, Lebanon, Lesotho, Liberia, Libyan Arab Jamahiriya, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Malawi, Malaysia, Maldives, Mali, Mauritania, Mauritius, Montenegro, Morocco, Myanmar, Namibia, Nepal, Netherlands, Nicaragua, Niger, Norway, Oman, Pakistan, Palau, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Republic of Korea, Romania, Rwanda, Saint Lucia, Samoa, São Tomé and Príncipe, Saudi Arabia, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sudan, Sweden, Switzerland, Syrian Arab Republic, Togo, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia, Turkey, Uganda, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United Republic of Tanzania, Uruguay, Venezuela ( Bolivarian Republic of ), Yemen, Zambia and Zimbabwe.

In addition to its direct military use, sea power is required to protect the ordinary merchant marine shipping that is the life-blood of any empire-although it is usually thought of as dominating because of unchallenged control of desert regions, Islam relied both for its spread and growth into the Islamic caliphate on sea trade routes originally developed millennia before by the Sea Peoples.

At the time of formation All Parties Hurriyat Conference members included Yaseen Malik's Jammu and Kashmir Liberation Front ( JKLF ), Sheikh Yaqoob Jammu and Kashmir Peoples League ( JKPL ), Shabbir Shah's People's Democratic Front, Maulana Mohammad Abbas Ansari of Ittihadul Muslimeen, Shakeel Bakshi's Islamic Students League, Muslim Conference led Abdul Ghani Bhat.

* Beyond Belief: Islamic Excursions among the Converted Peoples, a book by V. S. Naipaul

After the Soviet withdrawal, between 1992 and 1996, he was minister of defense in the new government of the Islamic State of Afghanistan under president Burhanuddin Rabbani, and acted as its military leader in the civil war against competing militias around Kabul.

These developments gave rise to the Islamist and Islamic movement opposed to the increasing communist and Soviet influence over Afghanistan.

While the CIA and MI6 and the People's Liberation Army of China financed the operation along with the Pakistan government against the Soviet Union Eventually the Soviet Union began looking for a withdrawal route and in 1988 Geneva Accords were signed between Communist-Afghanistan and the Islamic Republic of Pakistan ; under the terms Soviet troops were to withdraw.

Early reports estimated that $ 6 – 20 billion had been spent by the U. S. and Saudi Arabia but more recent reports state that the U. S. and Saudi Arabia provided as much as up to $ 40 billion in cash and weapons, which included over two thousand FIM-92 Stinger surface-to-air missiles, for building up Islamic groups against the Soviet Union.

In 1979 the Soviet Union deployed its 40th Army into Afghanistan, attempting to suppress an Islamic rebellion against an allied Marxist regime in the Afghan Civil War.

When the Soviet Union abandoned the Marxist Najibullah regime and withdrew from Afghanistan in 1989 ( the regime finally fell in 1992 ), the victory was seen by many Muslims as the triumph of Islamic faith over superior military power and technology that could be duplicated elsewhere.

In the later years of his leadership, Daoud began to shift favour from the Soviet Union to Islamic nations, expressing admiration for their wealth from oil and expecting economic aid from them to quickly surpass that of the Soviet Union.

Later, the Russian Revolution of 1917 would ultimately transform Turkmenistan from an Islamic tribal society to a totalitarian Leninist one during the Soviet era.

However, this move increased Uzbek nationalism, which had long resented Soviet policies such as the imposition of cotton monoculture and the suppression of Islamic traditions.

Major foreign policy events during his term of office included the normalization of relations with the People's Republic of China ( and the severing of ties with the Republic of China ); the signing of the second Strategic Arms Limitation Treaty ( SALT II ); the brokering of the Camp David Accords ; the transition of Iran from an important U. S. client state to an anti-Western Islamic Republic, encouraging dissidents in Eastern Europe and emphasizing human rights in order to undermine the influence of the Soviet Union ; the financing of the mujahideen in Afghanistan in response to the Soviet deployment of forces there and the arming of these rebels to counter the Soviet invasion ; and the signing of the Torrijos-Carter Treaties relinquishing overt U. S. control of the Panama Canal after 1999.

Iran has astonishingly even supported Christian Armenia against Shi ' ite Azerbaijan and has been careful not to lend too much support to Islamic Tajiks in Tajikistan, where the language is basically a dialect of Persian .</ BLOCKQUOTE > In this regard the Islamic Republic resembles another revolutionary state, the old Soviet Union.

Foreign ministers from 34 Islamic nations adopted a resolution which condemned the Soviet intervention and demanded " the immediate, urgent and unconditional withdrawal of Soviet troops " from the Muslim nation of Afghanistan.

Also, the fall of the Soviet Union together with the rise of Islamism — and particularly the increased popularity of the Islamist groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad — disoriented many left activists who looked towards the Soviet Union, and has marginalised the PFLP's role in Palestinian politics and armed resistance.

Zia is a polarising figure in Pakistan, credited by some for preventing wider Soviet incursions into the region as well as economic prosperity, but decried for weakening democratic institutions, supporting militancy, and passing harsh laws that may have given rise to Islamic fundamentalism.

* The Islamic Renaissance Party of Tajikistan, that was formed in the former Soviet Union and now operates across Central Asian states with the aim of forming Islamic States governed by Sharia.

There are reports of widespread fighting between the mujaheddin ( Islamic guerrillas ) and the security forces in vast areas stretching from Kandahar in the south to Badakhshan on the Soviet border.