{"id":37848,"date":"2022-07-12T08:26:16","date_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/?p=37848"},"modified":"2022-07-12T08:26:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-12T06:26:23","slug":"a-land-of-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/a-land-of-light\/","title":{"rendered":"A Land of Light"},"content":{"rendered":"Christine Gruwez knows the Persian region from many travels and studies. A conversation about the history and perspective in Afghanistan. Questions by Wolfgang Held.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nChristine Gruwez I want to say upfront that I have not visited Afghanistan, but all the neighboring countries - not only Iran, which I have visited many times, but also Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. As a result, I am quite familiar with the Persian landscape and culture. Up until the 18th century, these areas all belonged to the Persian Empire and shared a Persian culture. This is especially true for Afghanistan and Iran, which formed a cultural unity until the second half of the 17th century. But all these countries have common roots, like the fire temples of Zoroaster and Zarathustra.\n\n\n\nWhat is typical of t<div class=\"leaky_paywall_message_wrap\"><div id=\"leaky_paywall_message\">Would you like to carry on reading? <a href=\"\/en\/subscribe\/\">Get to know us for 1.-<\/a>. If you are already a subscriber, <a href=\"#\" class=\"modal-tr\" data-type=\"latl\">please log-in<\/a> to continue reading.<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Christine Gruwez knows the Persian region from many travels and studies. A conversation about the history and perspective in Afghanistan. Questions by Wolfgang Held. Christine Gruwez I want to say upfront that I have not visited Afghanistan, but all the neighboring countries &#8211; not only Iran, which I have visited many times, but also Turkmenistan, Tajikistan, and Pakistan. As a result, I am quite familiar with the Persian landscape and culture. Up until the 18th century, these areas all belonged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9155,"featured_media":33275,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8822,8797,8790],"tags":[9236,8798],"class_list":["post-37848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-geopolitics","category-conversation-en","category-society-en","tag-2021-37-en","tag-deepening"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9155"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37848\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dasgoetheanum.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}