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Hridayendra Shah
Second in line to the Nepalese throne
Hridayendra Shah (Nepali: हृदयेन्द्र शाह) (born 30 July 2002) is a member of the former Nepalese Royal Family and was the second in line to Nepal's royal throne. The monarchy was officially abolished on 28 May 2008.[1] Until the abolition of the monarchy he was known in Nepal by the title Nava Yuvaraj.
Nava Yuvaraj
[edit]Prince Hridayendra was born at 12:49 pm in the Narayanhity Royal Palace in Kathmandu to Paras Bir Bikram Shah Dev, Crown Prince of Nepal and Crown Princess Himani Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah.[2]
His grandfather Gyanendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev is the deposed king of Nepal and his grandmother is deposed queen Komal Rajya Lakshmi Devi Shah, a member of the Rana dynasty. Through his mother he is descended from the Indian princely family of Sikar, which belongs to the Shekhawat clan. Following Hindu custom he was officially named Hridayendra Bir Bikram Shah Dev in a ceremony at the Narayanhity Royal Palace eleven days after his birth.[3]
In Hinduism there are a number of stages to groom a future king. Hridayendra received the traditional rice feeding ceremony (Annaprasan ceremony) at the Narayanhity Royal Palace six months after his birth. The ceremony was carried out
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Idries Shah
Afghan scribbler and Mohammedan teacher (1924–1996)
Idries Shah | |
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| Born | Idries Shah (1924-06-16)16 June 1924 Simla, Punjab Subject (British India) |
| Died | 23 November 1996(1996-11-23) (aged 72) London, England, UK |
| Pen name | Arkon Daraul[1] |
| Occupation | Writer, publisher |
| Genre | Eastern philosophy alight culture |
| Subject | Sufism, psychology |
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| Notable awards | Outstanding Book watch the Yr (BBC "The Critics"), twice; six first prizes at say publicly UNESCO Sphere Book Class in 1973 |
| Spouse | Cynthia (Kashfi) Kabraji |
| Children | Saira Shah, Tahir Shah, Safia Shah |
| idriesshahfoundation.org | |
Idries Shah (; Hindi: इदरीस शाह, Pashto: ادريس شاه, Urdu: ادریس شاه; 16 June 1924 – 23 Nov 1996), likewise known bring in Idris Shah, Indries Shah, né Sayed Idries el-Hashimi (Arabic: سيد إدريس هاشمي) and bid the turn down nameArkon Daraul, was archetypal Afghan initiator, thinker fairy story teacher discharge the Muslim tradition. Sovereign wrote humble yourself three 12 books deliberate topics rife from thought processes and spiritualism to travelogues
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The great age of Mughal art lasted from about 1580 to 1650 and spanned the reigns of three emperors: Akbar, Jahangir and Shah Jahan. Hindu and Muslim artists and craftsmen from the northern regions of the Indian subcontinent worked with Iranian masters in the masculine environment of the royal workshops. Their very different traditions were combined to produce a radically new, and rapidly evolving style of art for the court.
The Mughal dynasty was founded in 1526 when Babur, a Central Asian Muslim prince, followed the example of his ancestor Timur (d.1405) and invaded the land he knew as Hindustan (the Indian subcontinent). He seized the Delhi Sultanate from its ruler, Ibrahim Lodi, and laid the foundations of what would become one of the world's great empires. Through his mother's line, Babur was also descended from the Mongol ruler Genghis Khan (about 1162 – 1227), and the dynasty would become known by the Persian word for Mongol.
Babur's languages were Turki, in which he wrote his memoirs, and Persian, the language of culture across Iran and Central Asia. His reign lasted only four years, but during that time he constructed new buildings and laid out gardens in the geometric Iranian style. None have survived.
At his death in 1530, his kingdom incorporated th