Keep silent

Keep silent or All , (توس or طوس in Persian) city of the North-East of the Iran located close to Mashhad in the province of Khorasan-e-razavi.

Tus was the cradle of two personalities of the medieval Perse:

the poet Ferdowsi, born towards 940 and died towards 1020, writer and translator starting from the Pehlevi (old man-Persian) of the Shâh Nâmeh ( Book of the Kings ), the mythological epopee Persian;
the astronomer Nasir AD-DIN At-Tusi, born in 1201 and died in 1274 close to Baghdad, which was with the service of the Assassins to Alamut then with that of the Mongolian prince Hülegü with the observatory of Maragha.

Y were born also Geber, Asadi Tusi, Nizam Al-Mulk, and Al-Ghazali.

The Abbasid Caliph Haroun rear-Rachid died there in 809 and is buried there.

The Imam Abou Hamid Al-Ghazali was born there in 1058 and it died there in 1111.

The city is conquered by Gengis Khan in 1220.

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