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| title = Herat, the 'pearl' of Afghanistan | | title = Herat, the 'pearl' of Afghanistan | ||
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Still a major cultural attractions, a mosque, tomb and madrassa complex, built in 1417 by Gohar Shad, daughter of a Chugtai noble, one of the Mongol hordes. Called the "most incomparable woman". she restored many buildings in Herat. Her grave reads "The Bilkis of All Time"; Bilkis is the Islamic name for the Queen of Sheba.<ref name=Frontline2006-11-04 /> While Herat is conservative for women's rights, she has been called Afghanistan's first feminist. | Still a major cultural attractions, a mosque, tomb and madrassa complex, built in 1417 by Gohar Shad, daughter of a Chugtai noble, one of the Mongol hordes. Called the "most incomparable woman". she restored many buildings in Herat. Her grave reads "The Bilkis of All Time"; Bilkis is the Islamic name for the Queen of Sheba.<ref name=Frontline2006-11-04 /> While Herat is conservative for women's rights, she has been called Afghanistan's first feminist. | ||
Revision as of 02:29, 12 May 2009
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In Herat if you stretch out your feet you are sure to kick a poet — Ali Sher Nawa
In the 14th and 15th centuries, under the Timurid dynasty, it became known as the "Florence of Asia". [1]
Still a major cultural attractions, a mosque, tomb and madrassa complex, built in 1417 by Gohar Shad, daughter of a Chugtai noble, one of the Mongol hordes. Called the "most incomparable woman". she restored many buildings in Herat. Her grave reads "The Bilkis of All Time"; Bilkis is the Islamic name for the Queen of Sheba.[2] While Herat is conservative for women's rights, she has been called Afghanistan's first feminist.
- ↑ "Herat, the 'pearl' of Afghanistan", BBC News, November 12, 2001
- ↑ Cite error: Invalid
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