How to make “The Meel“ the equipment used in Iran’s thousands-year-old Pahlevani sports

Meel, one of the tools used in the ancient sport of Zurkhaneh in Iran “Pahlavani“ redirects here. For the village in Iran, see Pahlavani, Iran. Pahlevani and zourkhaneh rituals is the name inscribed by UNESCO for varzesh-e pahlavāni or varzesh-e bāstāni , a traditional system of athletics and a form of martial arts[2] originally used to train warriors in Iran (Persia), and first appearing under this name and form in the Safavid era, with similarities to systems in adjacent lands under other Iran, zoorkhanehs can now also be found in Azerbaijan, and Afghanistan, and were introduced into Iraq in the mid-19th century by the Iranian immigrants, where they seem to have existed until the 1980s before disappearing. It combines martial arts, calisthenics, strength training and music. It contains elements of pre-Islamic and post-Islamic Persian culture (particularly Zoroastrianism, Mithraism and Gnosticism) with the spirituality of Persian Shia Islam and Sufism. Pra
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