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25-404: At the time of the 2006 National Census, the city's population was 38,521 in 9,619 households. The following census in 2011 counted 41,165 people in 11,213 households. The 2016 census measured the population of the city as 39,304 people in 11,501 households. According to Vladimir Minorsky , the name Khalkhāl may indicate a connection with the ancient Kharkhar kingdom , which existed somewhere in

50-529: A kutb-I kull which would be unique. So after 1324/1906 Ne’matollah, by God’s command, abandoned the world and became the "messenger of the Lord of the hour", of Pir Benyamin (explained as bin + ya + amin "faithful son of Ya"). Then comes the explanation of reincarnation ( gardish-e dun be-dun , "going from one garment to another"). The creatures of the world are divided into two distinct categories according to their original element ( zarda-gil or khak-i siyah ). To

75-424: A historical masterpiece. Hajj Nemat gave the manuscript to Dr. Saeed Khan Kordestani in order for him to transport it to France to have it translated by Dr. Vladimir Minorsky . Unfortunately Dr. Minorsky died in 1966 before the manuscript was fully translated and published. After Minorsky’s death the manuscript became misplaced and remains unpublished as of this date. The first part of Forqan ol-Akhbar deals with

100-916: A monograph on the Ahl-i Ḥaqq religion for which he was awarded the Gold Medal of the Ethnography Section of the Imperial Society of Natural Sciences in Moscow. One of the most important Kurdish manuscripts he obtained during this period was The Forqan ol-Akhbar , by Hajj Nematollah , which he later wrote about in "Etudes sur les Ahl-I Haqq, I.", Revue de L'Histoire des Religions, tome XCVII, No. 1, Janvier 1928, pp. 90–105. His surveys in Iran also provided invaluable material for his 1915 work, Materialï dlya izucheniya vostoka (Materials for

125-1012: The Ahl-e Haqq . In 1903 he entered the Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs , serving 1904–1908 in the Qajar dynasty (now Iran ), first in the Tabriz Consulate-General and then the Tehran Legation, and 1908–1912 in Saint Petersburg . In 1911, jointly the Four-Power (British, Russian, Turkish, and Persian) Commission, he carried out a mission in North-Western Persia to delimit the Turko-Persian border, and also published

150-608: The Novodevichy Cemetery , which was reserved exclusively for outstanding artists, literary men, composers, scholars, etc.; the bulk of his personal library was given to Leningrad . Minorsky received numerous honors during his lifetime, including being made a Corresponding Fellow of the British Academy , 1943, Honorary Member of the Société Asiatique of Paris, 1946, and Doctor honoris causa of

175-888: The University of Brussels , 1948. Minorsky was a prolific scholar, having published over 200 books and articles. Hajj Nematollah Hajj Nematollah ( Persian : حاجی نعمت‌الله 1871 – February 28, 1920) was an influential mystic and religious leader in the Qajar Empire period. He was born in Jeyhounabad , Iran and is considered one of the greatest leaders and mystics in Kurdish and Ahl-e Haqq history. Two of his most famous works of poetry and history are Furqān al-Akhbar (aka "The Firkan") and Ḥaqq al-Ḥaqāyiq yā Shāhnāmah-ʾi Ḥaqīqat . According to Encyclopædia Britannica, "The chief source of information about

200-547: The Ahl-e Haqq is the Firqan al-Akhbar , written in... early 20th century by (Hajj Nemat)…" Hajj Nemat's great-grandfather, Bayan Beg, accompanied Aga Abbas (one of the successors of Shah Hayas) to Jeyhounabad in the late 18th century. Bayan Beg's son, Esmail Beg, was Hajj Nemat’s grandfather. Nematollah Jeyhounabadi was born in 1871 (1288 Hijri calendar ) in the small village of Kurdish Jeyhounabad. Before his birth, Persia

225-477: The Khalkhal province comprised about 100 villages and had four districts: Khāmidah-Bīl, Sajasrūd, Anjīlābād, and Mīsjīn. It was assessed for a tax value of 30,000 dinars . Water from a spring on a nearby mountain powered two watermills, which provided enough irrigation for the surrounding fields. Mustawfi said its pastures were "excellent" and hunting grounds were "numerous and well-stocked with game" and wrote that

250-803: The Minorskys retired apart from a year (1948–49) at Fuad University , Cairo . In 1934 Minorsky was one of the distinguished participants in the Ferdowsi Millenary Celebration in Tehran . In 1960 Minorsky was invited by the Soviet Academy of Sciences to attend the meeting of the Twenty-Third International Congress of Orientalists in Moscow . After his death, his ashes were interred in

275-847: The Study of the East), published by the Imperial Russian Ministry of Foreign Affairs, St. Petersburg. From 1915-17 he served as Chargé d'affaires in the Russian Legation at Tehran . As the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 made problematic his return to Russia, in 1919 he moved to Paris where he worked at the Russian Embassy. There his expertise in Middle Eastern and Caucasian affairs

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300-518: The district was known for producing yogurt ( māst ) that was "so thick it has to be cut with a knife, as though it were cheese". [REDACTED] Media related to Khalkhal at Wikimedia Commons [REDACTED] Iran portal This Khalkhal County location article is a stub . You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it . Vladimir Minorsky Vladimir Fyodorovich Minorsky ( Russian : Владимир Фёдорович Минорский ; 5 February [ O.S. 24 February] 1877 – 25 March 1966)

325-504: The eastern Zagros Mountains in Neo-Assyrian times. The 14th-century author Hamdallah Mustawfi listed Khalkhal in his Nuzhat al-Qulub as forming part of the tuman of Ardabil . He described it as "formerly a fair-sized town" that had declined to a mere village by his time. He wrote that Khalkhal had succeeded the earlier city of Firuzabad as the capital of its province after Firuzabad itself had declined. Mustawfi wrote that

350-458: The first belong the saved and luminous beings, whose receptive sardars are Benyamin and Sayyid Muhammad (in his Avatar of Buzurg-sawar). To the other category belong beings of fire and darkness whose respective sardars are Iblis and Khannas , with whom are associated the first three caliphs , Mu’awiya , Aisha , etc. The intermixture of the two categories of beings produces combinations which may be externally recognized. The second part of

375-569: The formulae recited on each occasion. The style of Ḥaqq al-Ḥaqāyiq yā Shāhnāmah-ʾi Ḥaqīqat is poetic. There is an entire chapter about Ali , "The beginning was Ali and the end is Ali. Both worlds are luminous from the light of Ali. Ali is the manifestation of the pure essence of God, He is the King and Lord of both worlds. A sparkle of His essence, like the sun appeared at my time. I became so illuminated by him, that I knew of no God, other than Him." Hajj Nemat wrote about 20 books and essays. Among them

400-568: The fundamental principles of the haqiqat established in pre-eternity by the Divinity who in the stage of ya-yi ghaybat became externalized in the garment of Khawandagar. The law remained concealed till the coming of Sultan Sahak . Then the daftardars recorded these doctrines, but each in his own way and according to the sources which were accessible to him. As a result, the Ahl-e Haqq community has no single sacred book, and its divisions are distinguished by different views. The Ahl-e Haqq required

425-848: The imminent return of the divine. Thousands of people flocked around him, and on his command ceased to take tea, tobacco and opium. He “believed the time had come to reveal the Real Truth”, and “by God’s command abandoned the world and became the messenger of the Lord of the Hour ”. After the advent was postponed twice, he went silent and waited for the Great Essence to appear. Hajj Nemat was married to Sakina Khanoom, with whom he had 7 children. They had 3 sons, and four daughters. The names of his sons were Nur Ali Elahi , Yar Ali, Bahram, and his daughters were Malak Jân Nemati , Mariam and two daughters by

450-497: The name of Javaher. His first daughter Javaher died at an early age, thus the next daughter was named after her. Only three of Hajj Nemat's children lived to adulthood, Nur Ali, Malak Jân, and Mariam, the rest all died as children due to illness. In the last few days of his life Hajj Nemat had predicted his own death. Within 48 hours of his death his first grandchild, Hajj Amin Elahi, was born. The original manuscript of Forqan ol-Akhbar

475-469: The personal experiences of Hajj Ne’matollah and the commandments which he received from God during his journey to the beyond ( safar-I ukba ), notably his mission to unite the 12 Ahl-e Haqq khanadans , to give absolution from sins ( az khiyanat pak namudan ) and to intercede ( shifa’at ) with the Lord of Time. The fourth part is a full description of rites and customs ( amr wa-nahy ), with the Gurani text of

500-546: The treatise is mainly concerned with the correspondence of the avatars through the ages. Thus manifestations of Benyamin are Noah , Jesus and provisionally ( mihman ) Rustam of the Persian epic; those of Razbar: Bilkis , the Queen of Saba; Mary , the mother of Jesus, etc.; those of Sayyid Muhammad: Zoroaster , Muhammad , etc. Next we are given the history of Sultan Sahak (Ishak) and of his successors. The third part relates

525-566: Was Feodor M. Minorsky and his mother was Olga Minorsky ( née  Golubitsky ). He was a gold medallist of the Fourth Grammar School in Moscow. In 1896 he entered Moscow University to study law, graduating in 1900, then entered the Lazarev Institute of Oriental Languages where he spent 3 years preparing for a diplomatic career. He made his first trip to Iran ( Qajar dynasty ) in 1902, where he collected material on

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550-587: Was a Russian academic, historian, and scholar of Oriental studies , best known for his contributions to the study of history of Iran and the Iranian peoples such as Persians , Laz people , Lurs , and Kurds . Minorsky was born on 5 February 1877 in Korcheva , Tver Governorate , northwest of Moscow on the upper Volga River , a town now submerged beneath the Ivankovo Reservoir . His father

575-405: Was completed in 1910 by Hajj Nemat and is written in four parts. His son Nur Ali Elahi wrote an introduction to Forqan ol-Akhbar and the biography of his father under the title of Kashf Al-Haqa’iq (which is approximately the first 14 pages of the manuscript, and features Nur Ali Elahi's calligraphy). Forqan ol-Akhbar is the only manuscript entirely handwritten by Hajj Nemat and is considered

600-425: Was going through one of the worst droughts in history. His father, Bayan, named him Nematollah ("Grace of God") because on the day of his birth, Iran finally received the rain it so desperately needed. In 1893 he married Sakina and they had their first child, Nur Ali Elahi, in 1895. At the age of thirty, during a grave illness, he claimed that he went on a journey to the beyond where he was appointed by God to announce

625-790: Was useful during the Versaille and Trianon peace settlements. In 1923 he began to lecture on Persian literature at the École nationale des langues orientales vivantes , where he subsequently taught Turkish and Islamic history. In 1930 he was named Oriental Secretary to the 1931 International Exhibition of Persian Art at Burlington House , London , and in 1932 was made lecturer in Persian at London's School of Oriental Studies . In 1933 he became Reader in Persian Literature and History, University of London ; Professor of Persian in 1937; and in 1944 retired. During World War II , SOAS had evacuated to University of Cambridge , and there

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