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Shahnameh of Shah Tahmasp

Muraqqa'-i Shah Tahmasp (Shahnama-yi Shahi) is a lavish illustrated copy of Ferdowsi's epic, produced at the Safavid royal workshop in Tabriz starting in the early 1520s.

Shahnameh-khani (شاهنامه‌خوانی) is the Iranian tradition of reciting or singing verses of Ferdowsi's Shahnameh before an audience, ranging from simple reading to the professional dramatic storytelling known as naqqali.

Shahnameh-ye Abu Mansuri

The Shahnameh-ye Abu Mansuri (شاهنامهٔ ابومنصوری) was a New Persian prose history of ancient Iranian kings, completed in 957 at Tus for Abu Mansur Muhammad.

Shahnaz Pahlavi (شهناز پهلوی)

Shahnaz Pahlavi is an Iranian princess, the only child of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi and Queen Fawzia of Egypt. She was born in Tehran in 1940.

Shahnon Ahmad

Shahnon Ahmad (1933–2017) was a Malaysian novelist and academic named the country's second Sasterawan Negara in 1982; his novel Ranjau Sepanjang Jalan became a classic of modern Malay literature.

Shahpur Ghosana Mound

Shahpur Ghosana Mound (Shahpur Gausana), an archaeological settlement mound in Raya Block, Mathura District, Uttar Pradesh, India, in the Kushan-era Mathura region of western UP.

Sep 24, 2026

Shahpuri Island incident

The Shahpuri Island incident was the occupation of Shahpuri Island near the Naf River by Burmese forces in September 1823, prompting Britain to declare the First Anglo-Burmese War in 1824.

Shahr Ashob

Shahr Ashob (شہر آشوب) is a classical Persian, Turkish, and Urdu poetic genre in which a poet describes a city's ruin and its people's political, economic, and social distress.

Shahr Hilal Yuhar'ish

Shahr Hilal Yuhar'ish was a king of Qataban in ancient South Arabia, present-day Yemen, who succeeded his father around 50 BC and made peace with Hadramawt, allying with it against Himyar.

Shahr Yagul

Shahr Yagul Yuhargib was a king of Qatabān in ancient South Arabia, in modern Yemen, known almost solely from an inscription naming him as the father of King Warawʾīl Ghaylān Yuhanʿim.

Shahr-i Kuhna

Shahr-i Kuhna (Persian "old city") names several Afghan sites: Kandahar's pre-Islamic Old City, a Kushan-period mound complex in Baghlan, ruins near Kajaki in Helmand, and Herat's early core.

Shahr-i Sokhta

Shahr-i Sokhta (Persian: شهر سوخته, Burnt City) is a Bronze Age urban site in Sistan, south-eastern Iran, occupied from around 3200 BC and a World Heritage Site since 2014.

Sep 21, 2026

Shahragim Tajbakhsh

Shahragim Tajbakhsh is a developmental biologist at the Institut Pasteur in Paris who studies skeletal muscle stem cells and leads the Stem Cells and Development unit.

Shahrbanu (شهربانو)

Shahrbanu (شهربانو), also called Shahrbanu binte Yazdegerd III, is the wife of Husayn ibn Ali in Twelver Shia tradition, honored as mother of Imam Zayn al-Abidin and linked to Persian royalty.

Sep 23, 2026

Shahrbaraz

Shahrbaraz (شهربراز) was a Sasanian general and briefly king in 630, who conquered Jerusalem and Egypt, besieged Constantinople in 626, and was assassinated forty days after taking the throne.

Shahre Gheseh Theme Park

Shahre Gheseh Theme Park (Hezaro Yek Shahr, Story City) is a $350 million amusement park under construction in Tehran's District 22, Iran, developed by Ezam Construction Investment Company, designed by Forrec, with seven themed Diar zones; construction resumed in 2024 with phases opening 2026.

Shahrestān-e Shīrvān va Chardāval

Shahrestān-e Shīrvān va Chardāval (شهرستان شیروان و چرداول), Shirvan and Chardavol County, a former county of Ilam Province, Iran, centered on Sarableh; separated from Ilam County in 1981, renamed Chardavol County in 2013, later split into Chardavol, Sirvan, and Holeylan counties.

Shahrīār

Shahrīār (شهریار) is a fast-growing city in Tehran Province, Iran, seat of Shahrīār County on Tehran's western fringe; population grew from 40,058 (1996) to 309,607 (2016), with a cold semi-arid climate.

Sep 21, 2026

Shahriar Mobashery

Shahriar Mobashery, publishing as S. Mobashery, is a bioorganic and medicinal chemist who has held the Navari Family Professorship at Notre Dame since 2003, studying the bacterial cell wall and antibiotic resistance.

Shahrukh Bi

Shahrukh Bi, also rendered Shahrukh Biy, was an Uzbek Ming chief who founded the Khanate of Kokand, ruling the Ferghana Valley from 1709 until his death in 1721/22.

Shahrum Kashani

Shahrum Kashani (شهرام کاشانی), also known as Shahrum K, was an Iranian-American pop singer of the Los Angeles diaspora scene with hits like Dokhtar Bandari.

Shahryar (poet)

Shahryar, pen name of Akhlaq Mohammed Khan (1936–2012), was an Indian Urdu poet and academic at Aligarh Muslim University who won both the Sahitya Akademi and Jnanpith awards.

Shahrzad (شهرزاد) (TV series)

Shahrzad (شهرزاد) is an Iranian romantic historical drama series directed by Hassan Fathi that ran for three seasons between 2015 and 2018, set in 1950s Tehran.

Shahs of Sunset

Shahs of Sunset, a Bravo reality series (2012–2021, 9 seasons, 174 episodes) created by Ryan Seacrest, followed Persian-American friends in Los Angeles' 'Tehrangeles'; canceled after season 9, rebooted as The Valley: Persian Style in 2026.

Sep 23, 2026

Shahsevan

The Shahsevan (شاهسون) were a confederacy of nomadic tribes of northwest Iran, formed between the 16th and 18th centuries and known for loyalty to the Safavid shahs.

Shahu I

Shahu I (शाहू), Chhatrapati of the Marathas 1707-1749, son of Sambhaji; released from Mughal captivity in 1707, won the succession war against Tarabai, ruled from Satara, and saw the Peshwa become de facto ruler.

Sep 27, 2026

Shahu II of Kolhapur

Shahu II of Kolhapur, born Shahu Shahaji Chhatrapati in 1948, is an Indian National Congress politician from the Kolhapur royal family elected to the Lok Sabha from Kolhapur in 2024.

Shahu of Kolhapur

Shahu of Kolhapur (Chhatrapati Rajarshi Shahu Maharaj, छत्रपती राजर्षी शाहू महाराज, 1874–1922), ruler of the Kolhapur princely state 1894–1922; issued the 26 July 1902 order reserving 50 percent of state jobs for backward classes, anti-untouchability ordinances, and free compulsory primary education.

Sep 23, 2026

Shahuji I of Thanjavur

Shahuji I of Thanjavur (शाहूजी), also called Shahji, was a Maratha ruler of Thanjavur from 1684 to 1712, eldest son of Venkoji, who became a Mughal vassal in 1691.