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TEHRAN-- Tramping through the neighboring cemetery might not be your very first option when considering enjoyable outings.However, cemetery
tourist is a developing industry today as more tourists pay check outs to cemeteries around the world to review their lives, find the grave
of a star, or discover more about their origins by visiting the last resting locations of liked ones.Ibn Babawayh, which is situated in the
ancient city of Rey, southern Tehran, is a sizable historic cemetery where numerous significant Iranians have actually been buried.Strolling
around the graveyard, you can visit the tombs of well-known Iranians like Jalal Al-e Ahmad, the modern author, Hossein Behzad, the
noteworthy miniaturist, Ali-Akbar Dehkhoda, the well-known linguist, poet, and scholar, and Gholam-Reza Takhti, and the well-known Olympic
gold medal-winning wrestler, to name a few.Moreover, it was when home to many household mausoleums with elegant historical structures,
however many of them have actually been damaged as an outcome of urban development projects.The cemetery bears the name of Ibn Babawayh, an
Islamic theologian and the author of among the Four Books, which serve as the foundations of Twelver Shia doctrine.Ibn Babawayh, also
called Shaikh Saduq, was born in Khorasan, northeast Iran, in 923 CE, and died in Ray in 991 CE
His burial place, which bears eight pillars embellished with beige and blue tiles, is a location of pilgrimage for Muslims.The cemetery,
which was initially constructed during the guideline of the Samanids (819-- 999), has been ruined numerous times and for a range of factors,
consisting of the Mongol invasion (1219-- 1221 CE), several civil wars, and also natural disasters.The construction of the existing
cemetery, which happened during the Qajar period, has an interesting history
According to Haj Mohammad Baqer Khansari in a book entitled Rozat al-Janat , the old cemetery was as soon as damaged by heavy
floodings.Narratives say, the time when workers arrived to fix the damage, they found an undamaged remains and an inscription in the
The mausoleum was built 800 years earlier, based on the inscription
By the way, when word of the discovery of an intact corpse in Shaikh Saduqs mausoleum reached the court, the king dispatched an envoy to the
place to confirm the accuracy of the report.One of the Parthian empires capital cities, Rey, was conquered by Muslim Arabs in 641 CE
It was one of the Parthian empires capital cities (3rd century BC-- very first century CE)
The city grew in value during the guideline of the Muslim caliph al-Mahdi in the 8th century, eventually exceeding Damascus and Baghdad as
the most important cities in western Asia.According to Britannica, Islamic writers explained it as a city of amazing appeal, built mostly of
fired brick and remarkably ornamented with blue faience (glazed earthenware)
It continued to be an important city and was briefly a capital under the rule of the Seljuks, however in the 12th century, it was weakened
by the fierce quarrels of rival religious sects
In 1220, the city was nearly damaged by the Mongols, and its inhabitants were massacred
Most of the survivors of the massacre relocated to neighboring Tehran, and the deserted residues of Rey quickly fell into complete ruin.AFM
