Answer the following question: Information: - Uzbekistan, officially the Republic of Uzbekistan, is a doubly landlocked country in Central Asia. It is a unitary, constitutional, presidential republic, comprising twelve provinces, one autonomous republic and a capital city. Uzbekistan is bordered by five landlocked countries: Kazakhstan to the north; Tajikistan to the southeast; Kyrgyzstan to the northeast; Afghanistan to the south; and Turkmenistan to the southwest. - Ali ibn Mohammed al - Jurjani ( 1339 -- 1414 ) ( Persian ) was a Persian encyclopedic writer and traditionalist theologian . He was born near Astarabad and became a professor in Shiraz . When this city was plundered by Timur ( 1387 ) he moved to Samarkand , but returned to Shiraz in 1405 , and remained there until his death . Of his thirty - one extant works , many being commentaries on other works , one of the best known is the Tarft ( '' Definitions '' ) , which was edited by G Flugel ( Leipzig , 1845 ) , published also in Constantinople ( 1837 ) , Cairo ( 1866 , etc. ) , and St Petersburg ( 1897 ) . - The Turco-Mongol or Turko-Mongol tradition was a cultural synthesis that arose during the early 14th century, among the ruling elites of Mongol Empire successor states such as the Chagatai Khanate and Golden Horde. These elites adopted Turkic languages and different religions such as Buddhism and Islam, while retaining Mongol political and legal institutions. Many later Central Asian states drew heavily on this tradition, including the Timurid Empire, the Kazakh Khanate, the Khanate of Kazan, the Nogai Khanate, the Crimean Khanate, and the Mughal Empire. - The Timurid Empire, self-designated as Gurkani ("Grkniyn"), was a Persianate Turco-Mongol empire comprising modern-day Iran, the Caucasus, Mesopotamia, Afghanistan, much of Central Asia, as well as parts of contemporary Pakistan, Syria, and Turkey. - Central Asia or Middle Asia is the core region of the Asian continent and stretches from the Caspian Sea in the west to China in the east and from Afghanistan in the south to Russia in the north. It is also colloquially referred to as "the 'stans" (as the six countries generally considered to be within the region all have names ending with the Persian suffix "-stan", meaning "land of") and is within the scope of the wider Eurasian continent. - Sogdia (New Persian: , "soghd") or Sogdiana was the ancient Indo-European civilization of an Iranian people that at different times included territory located in present-day Tajikistan and Uzbekistan such as: Samarkand, Bukhara, Khujand, Panjikent and Shahrisabz. Sogdiana was also a province of the Achaemenid Empire, eighteenth in the list on the Behistun Inscription of Darius the Great (i. 16). In the Avesta, Sogdiana is listed as the second best land that the supreme deity Ahura Mazda had created. It comes second, after Airyanem Vaejah, "homeland of the Aryans", in the Zoroastrian book of Vendidad, indicating the importance of this region from ancient times. Sogdiana was conquered by the Macedonian ruler Alexander the Great in 328 BC and later formed part of the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom and Sasanian Empire. - The Silk Road or Silk Route was an ancient network of trade routes that were for centuries central to cultural interaction through regions of the Asian continent connecting the East and West from China to the Mediterranean Sea. - Timur ("Timr", Chagatai: ', ; 9 April 1336 18 February 1405), historically known as Tamerlane"' ("Timr(-e) Lang", "Timur the Lame"), was a Turco-Mongol conqueror and the founder of the Timurid Empire in Persia and Central Asia. He was also the first ruler in the Timurid dynasty. - The Timurid dynasty, self-designated as Gurkani ("Grkniyn"), was a Sunni Muslim dynasty or clan of Turco-Mongol lineage descended from the warlord Timur (also known as Tamerlane). The word "Gurkani" derived from "gurkan", a Persianized form of the Mongolian word "kuragan" meaning "son-in-law", as the Timurids being in-laws of the line of Genghis Khan, founder of the Mongol Empire. Members of the Timurid dynasty were strongly influenced by the Persian culture and had established two significant empires in history, the Timurid Empire (1370-1507) based in Persia and Central Asia and the Mughal Empire (1526-1857) based in the Indian subcontinent. - Samarkand (from Sogdian: "Stone Fort" or "Rock Town" ; Cyrillic/), alternatively Samarqand or Samarcand, is a city in modern-day Uzbekistan and is one of the oldest inhabited cities in Central Asia. There is evidence of human activity in the area of the city from the late Paleolithic era, though there is no direct evidence of when exactly Samarkand proper was founded; some theories are that it was founded between the 8th and 7th centuries BC. Prospering from its location on the Silk Road between China and the Mediterranean, at times Samarkand was one of the greatest cities of Central Asia. Given the information above, choose from the list below the object entity that exhibits the relation 'country of citizenship' with the subject 'ali ibn mohammed al-jurjani'. Choices: - achaemenid empire - afghanistan - chagatai khanate - china - golden horde - iran - kazakh khanate - kazakhstan - khanate of kazan - mongol empire - mughal empire - russia - tajikistan - timurid empire - turkmenistan - uzbekistan
Answer:
iran