Page 2 - Oxus River News Today : Breaking News, Live Updates & Top Stories | Vimarsana

Niẓām al-Mulk, (Arabic: “Order of the Kingdom”) , original name Abū ʿAlī Ḥasan ibn ʿAlī ibn Isḥāq al-Ṭūsī, (born c. 1018/19, Ṭūs, Khorāsān, Iran—died Oct. 14, 1092, near Nehāvand), Persian vizier of the Turkish Seljuq sultans (1063–92), best remembered for his large treatise on kingship, Seyāsat-nāmeh (The Book of Government; or, Rules for Kings). Niẓām al-Mulk was the son of a revenue official for the Ghaznavid dynasty. Through his father’s position, he was born into the literate, cultured milieu of the Persian administrative class. His early years incl...

This Encyclopedia Britannica Science list features 7 lakes that are drying up.

Alexander the Great conquered all the way to India and along the way founded new cities, from the East Mediterranean all the way to the Punjab.

Called also Tamerlane, from the Persian Timur Leng and the Arabic Tamarlang (both meaning Timur the Lame; see below). The Life of Timur node|Volume I: H...

The United States should not disengage and simply leave the Afghan game to others. It needs to stay in this new Great Game, wherever it might lead.