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Neyshabur

 
 

Town (pop., 2006: 208,860), northeastern Iran. Its name derives from its founder, the Sasanian king Shapur I. One of the four great cities of the region of Khorasan, it was the residence of the 5th-century Sasanian king Yazdegerd II. It declined by the mid-7th century but flourished again under the Tahirid (821 – 873) and Samanid (819 – 999) dynasties. It was the residence of the Seljuq sultan Toghrïl Beg in the 11th century but again declined in the 12th century. The tombs of the renowned poet and scholar Omar Khayyam and the mystic poet Farid al-Din 'Attar are nearby.

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Neyshabur (nāshäbʊr') , city (1991 pop. 135,681), Razavi Khorasan prov., NE Iran; also called Nishapur. It is the trade center for a farm region where cotton, fruit, and grain are grown. Manufactures include food products and leather goods; turquoise is mined nearby. Neyshabur was founded by the Sassanid ruler Shapur I in the 3d cent. A.D. It was rebuilt (4th cent.) by Shapur II and became one of Persia's foremost cities. Under the Seljuk Turks (11th–12th cent.) it was an important cultural center; several colleges were founded there by Nizam al-Mulk. Al-Ghazali, the noted philosopher of the 11th–12th cent., studied in Neyshabur, and his famous contemporary Omar Khayyam was born in the city and is buried there. The tomb of Omar was rebuilt in 1934. Near Neyshabur archaeologists have made important finds of glazed pottery and stucco work from the 9th and 10th cent.


 
 
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