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From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD">Mike Morgan</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:mwmbombay@gmail.com">mwmbombay@gmail.com</a></span></span><span><span></span></span><span><span></span></span><p class="MsoNormal">
Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L "Traditions" 2012.03.21 (02) [EN]</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><br><span></span></p>Ingmar!<br><br>Not sure which is considered actual New Year Day, but the
official Afghani New Year holiday is 20-23 March (which i think also
applied to Iran).<br><br>The woman belongs to the group of Naqvi Sayeds (< Sayyid, plural <b>Sadat</b>)
who are those (mostly South Asians) who claim descent from the Prophet
(PBUH) through Ali Naqi Al-Hadi the 10th Twelver Shi'a Imam (whose son
was Sayed, hence the 2nd part of the name).<br>
<br><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syeds_Naqvi" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syeds_Naqvi</a><br><br>(genetic work I have seen however does not quite match with the claim)<br><br>Ingmar wrote:<br>
<div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">According to a woman from Afghanistan I know, whom I spoke with very
briefly today, Nowruz was yesterday, so the 20th instead of 21st of
March. ...</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,153)"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)">her group, whose name I forgot, I
think something with Sadat in it, claims to be of Arab descendance.
They speak Dari as their mother language.</span><br></div><div style="margin-left:40px"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,153)" class="HOEnZb adL"></span><br><span class="HOEnZb adL"></span></div><span class="HOEnZb adL"><font color="#888888"><div>
mwm || <u>U</u> C > || mike || мика || माईक || マイク || மாய்க் (aka Dr Michael W Morgan)<br>sign language linguist / linguistic typologist at large / "Have language(s), will travel"</div>
<div><br><b>"If one has no affection for a person or a system, one
should feel free to give the fullest expression to his disaffection so
long as he does not contemplate, promote, or incite violence." (MKG)<br>
"You assist an unjust administration most effectively by obeying its
orders and decrees. An evil administration never deserves such
allegiance. Allegiance to it means partaking of the evil.</b> <b>A good
person will resist an evil system with his whole soul. Disobedience of
the laws of an evil state is therefore a duty." (MKG)</b><br>
been there, done that...</div></font></span><br><br><div class="yj6qo ajU"><div id=":14z" class="ajR" tabindex="0"><img class="ajT" src="images/cleardot.gif"></div></div><font style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" size="2"><div style="text-align:center">
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