Shirin

Shirin (? – 628 AD) (Persian: شيرين) was a wife of the Sassanid Persian Shahanshah (king of kings), Khosrow Parviz. In the revolution after the death of Khosrow's father Hormizd IV, the General Bahram Chobin took power over the Persian empire. Shirin fled with Khosrau to Syria, where they lived under the protection of Byzantine emperor Maurice. In 591, Khosrau returned to Persia to take control of the empire and Shirin was made queen. She used her new influence to support the Christian minority in Iran, but the political situation demanded that she do so discreetly. Initially she belonged to the Church of the East, the so-called Nestorians, but later she joined the miaphysite church of Antioch, now known as the Syriac Orthodox Church. After conquering Jerusalem in 614, amidst the Byzantine–Sasanian War of 602–628, the Persians captured the True Cross of Jesus and brought it to their capital Ctesiphon, where Shirin took the cross in her palace.

Long after her death Shirin became an important heroine of Persian literature, as a model of a faithful lover and wife. She appears in the Shahnameh and the romance Khosrow and Shirin by Nizami Ganjavi (1141−1209), and is referred to in very many other works. Her elaborated story in literature bears little or no resemblance to the fairly few known historical facts of her life, although her Christianity and difficulties after the assassination of her husband remain part of the story, as well as Khosrow's exile before he regained his throne. After their first accidental meeting, when Khosrow was initially unaware of her identity, their courtship takes a number of twists and turns, with the pair often apart, that occupy most of the story. After Khosrow's son kills him, he demands that Shirin marry him, which she commits suicide to avoid.

Shirin (disambiguation)

Shirin was the wife of Sassanid Persian Khosrau II.

Shirin' may also refer to:

People

  • Shirin Akiner (born 1943), British historian
  • Shirin Bina (born 1964), Iranian actor
  • Shirin Darasha (1938–2012), Indian educator
  • Shirin Ebadi (born 1947), Iranian lawyer and Nobel Prize winner
  • Shirin Guha (born 1986), Indian actress
  • Shirin Guild (born 1946), Iranian fashion designer
  • Shirin Neshat (born 1957), Iranian artist
  • Shirin Nezammafi (born 1979), Iranian writer
  • Shirin M. Rai (born 1960), Indian political scientist
  • Shirin R. Tahir-Kheli (born 1944), American political scientist and diplomat
  • Places

  • Qasr-e Shirin, Kermanshah Province, Iran
  • Shirin, Eqlid, Iran
  • Shirin, Fars, Iran
  • Shirin, Kohgiluyeh and Boyer-Ahmad, Iran
  • Shirin, Razavi Khorasan, Iran
  • Shirin, Sistan and Baluchestan, Iran
  • Shirin, Uzbekistan
  • Other uses

  • Shirin (crater), a crater located on Saturn's moon Enceladus
  • Shirin (film), an Iranian film
  • USS Shirin (SP-915), a United States Navy ship
  • Shirin (crater)

    Shirin is an impact crater located on the anti-Saturn hemisphere of Saturn's moon Enceladus. Shirin was first observed in Cassini images during that mission's March 2005 flyby of Enceladus. It is located at 1.9° South Latitude, 172.4° West Longitude, and is 8.7 kilometers across.Cassini observed several, narrow, southwest-northeast trending fractures cutting across Shirin, forming canyons up to a hundred metres deep along the crater's rim. Several wider fractures are seen nearby, however these appeared to form before the Shirin impact since the crater appears to cover these fractures as they appear it.

    Shirin is named after the wife of Persian Sassanid king Khosrau II and one of the primary characters in the tale "Khusrau and Shirin and the Fisherman" from The Book of One Thousand and One Nights. Khusrau, a crater named after her husband, is located to the west of Shirin crater.

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    Good Girls Always Surrender - EP

    by: Shirin

    Bang, Bang, Bang
    Honey shot you down, down
    Ring a ding ding
    Honey hit the ground, ground
    It's all bruises from here honey you're losing your
    Pow, Pow, Pow
    I just knocked you out out
    Down, down, down
    Honey ain't it sour now
    Take a bullet for me my sweet valentine crush
    This love can be hit or miss
    Bye bye baby give me one last kiss
    Oh please
    Take a bullet for me
    Tick, Tick, Tock
    That's your beating heartbeat
    Stomp, stomp, stomp
    Hear you moving your feet
    There's no escaping from here honey you're wanting to
    Run, Run, Run,
    Getting up and on now
    Dum, dum, dum
    There's one thing I want though
    Take a bullet for me my sweet valentine crush
    Chorus
    This love can be hit or miss
    Bye bye baby give me one last kiss
    Oh please
    Take a bullet for me
    It's all black but you look so white
    Bye bye baby don't put up a fight
    Oh please
    Take a bullet for me
    I'll take a shot in the dark
    You may not make your way back to my heart
    Let's make this moment ours
    It's safe to say
    I'll say bye bye to you
    This love can be hit or miss
    Bye bye baby give me one last kiss
    Oh please
    Take a bullet for me
    It's all black but you look so white
    Bye bye baby don't put up a fight
    Oh please
    Take a bullet for me




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