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Daralfonoon (Persian دار الفنون), established 1851 was the first modern institution of higher learning in Iran. Persian (فارسی), (local name in Iran and Afghanistan: Fârsi), Pârsi (older local name, but still used by some speakers), Tajik (a Central Asian dialect) or Dari (Another local name in Afghanistan), is a language spoken in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Bahrain and Uzbekistan. ... Events January 23 - The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. ...


Founded by Amir Kabir, then the royal vizier to the shah of Iran, Daralfanoon originally was conceived as a polytechnic to train upper-class Persian youth in medicine, engineering, military science and geology. It was similar in scope and purpose to American land grant colleges like Purdue University and Texas A&M. Like them, it developed and expanded its mission over the next hundred years, eventually becoming the University of Tehran. Amir Kabir (امیرکبیر in Persian), also known as Mirza Taghi Khan Amir_Nezam (میرزا تقی‌خان امیرنظام), was the chancellor of Persia under Nasereddin Shah. ... A Vizier (وزير, sometimes also spelled Wazir) is an Arabic term for a high-ranking religious and political advisor, often to a king or sultan. ... Shah (in Persian: شاه), from the Old Persian word khshathra king, is the Persian term for a monarch and used by the former rulers of Persia (present-day Iran) as well as the rulers of the Persian Empire. ... The term polytechnic, from the Greek πολύ polú meaning many and τεχνικός tekhnikós meaning arts, is commonly used in many countries to describe an institution that delivers technical education, other countries do not use the term and use alternative terminology. ... Medicine is a branch of health science concerned with restoring and maintaining health. ... Engineering is the application of science to the needs of humanity. ... Military science concerns itself with the study and of the diverse technical, psychological, and practical phenomena that encompass the events that make up warfare, especially armed combat. ... Geology (from Greek γη- (ge-, the earth) and λογος (logos, word, reason)) is the science and study of the Earth, its composition, structure, physical properties, history, and the processes that shape it. ... Land-grant universities (also called land-grant colleges or land grant institutions) are American institutions which have been designated by a Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890. ... Purdue University is a public land-grant university system within the state of Indiana. ... Texas A&M University at College Station Texas A&M University, often Texas A&M, A&M or TAMU for short, is one of the flagship universities of Texas, and is the flagship institution of the Texas A&M University System. ... The University of Tehran (دانشگاه تهران in Persian), also known as Tehran University, is the oldest and largest university of Iran. ...


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Iran Daily (1913 words)
The Darolfonoon institute in downtown Nasser Khosro Street in Tehran is in bad condition and awaiting funds that would heal wounds inflicted on the monument over time.
He explained that renovation of the electrical wiring, repairing the ceiling and converting the publishing center to a computer site are among the measures planned for this phase which is estimated to take one month.
Darolfonoon served as a seat of learning until 1971, but was later abandoned out of fear of possible destruction of the building.
FAREIRAN.COM (1171 words)
Scholars, past and present, all maintain that Darolfonoon played a vital role in the emergence of the Constitutional Movement among the educated people of Iran.
In his notes he points out that in 1889 the number of students at Darolfonoon was 387 of whom 75 students were engaged in military studies and training, 140 in science and technology, 45 in learning the French language, 37 in English, 10 in Russian and 80 in technical drawing and building techniques.
Darolfonoon expanded rapidly and Nassereddin Shah made serious attempt at developing it; perhaps to make up for his great mistake of killing the Amir.
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