Word: isfahan
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...Iran the militant faith of Mohammed grew into a violent, mystic evangelism, complete with its own saints, rituals and miracles. Through the centuries Iran became the home of the Sufi mystics and the whirling dervishes, wild-eyed ascetics who fascinated the marketplace in Teheran and Isfahan with their homemade trances and visions...
...spread. At Abadan 300 students walked out of A.I.O.C. classes, demanding that passing grades be lowered from 50% to 30%. In Isfahan, jobless textile workers demonstrated in front of the Governor General's palace...
Near ancient Isfahan, a U.S. Government-sponsored Point Four project is trying to improve a farming district aptly described as "worse than anything in India." At Shiraz, wealthy Iranians are paying for the country's first city water mains. In many regions, especially along the Caspian shore, every building and cottage has the sign...
...Bullard. The gist of his message: "What do I do now?" The answer, polite but inflexible, was what the Shah expected. Getting into his limousine, he drove to town. There he left a letter with his brand-new Prime Minister Ali Feroughi. Then he drove south, 200 miles to Isfahan...
...Greeks, Arabs and Mongols; she was sideswiped by nearly every artistic bandwagon that rumbled through Europe and Asia. But though her artists copied Genghis Khan's Chinese painters, Greek sculpture and the primitives of 14th-Century Italians, they made their Persian versions as characteristically Persian as an Isfahan carpet. The Persians concentrated on decoration, distorted their figures and landscapes into semi-abstract patterns, prized neatly filled space more than neatly copied nature...