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Maqbaratoshoara
Maqbarat-o-shoara (Persian: مقبرةالشعرا) or the Mausoleum of Poets (Persian: ''Mazār-e Shāerān'' or ''Mazār-e Sorāyandegān'') is a Maqbara (graveyard) belonging to classical and contemporary poets, mystics and other notable people, located in the Surkhab district of Tabriz in Iran. It was built by Tahmaseb Dolatshahi in the mid-1970s while he was the Secretary of Arts and Cultures of East Azarbaijan. On the east side of Sayyed Hamzeh's grave and Ghaem Magham's grave, there is a graveyard containing the graves of important poets, mystics, scientists and well-known people of Tabriz. The Mausoleum was first mentioned by the medieval historian Hamdollah Mostowfi in his '' Nozhat ol-Gholub''. Hamdollah mentions it being located in what, at the time, was the Surkhab district of Tabriz. Since the 1970s, there have been attempts to renovate the graveyard area. Some work has been carried out like the construction of a new symbolic building on this site. The first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maghrebi Tabrizi
Mohammad Shirin Maghrebi Tabrizi, known as Shirin or Mullah Mohammad Shirin also known as Shams Maghrebi lived between years 1348 AD until 1406 AD (749-809 AH), is an Iranian poet and a Mysticism, Mystic and a Sufism, Sufi of the second half of the eighth century AH. The reason for his fame and nickname to the Maghrebi Arabic, Maghrebi is considered by some to be his trip to Morocco (called Maghreb in Persian language, Persian) and wearing a cloak by one of Ibn Arabi, Ibn Arabi's relatives. Maghrebi in his beliefs was a follower of Ismaeel Sisi and was a good fellow of Noureddin Abdul Rahman Esfarayeni and a companion of Kamal Khujandi. In addition to Ismaeel Sisi, his other teachers are: Baha'uddin Hamedani, Mohiuddin Ibn Arabi, Sa'ad al-Din Tabrizi and Abdul Momen Saravi. Some have attributed him to the method of Suhrawardiyya or Marufieh. Although some of his teachers were raised to be followers of the first tradition, his works indicate that he was s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Maqbarat-o-shoara (Persian: مقبرةالشعرا) or the Mausoleum of Poets (Persian: ''Mazār-e Shāerān'' or ''Mazār-e Sorāyandegān'') is a Maqbara (graveyard) belonging to classical and contemporary poets, mystics and other notable people, located in the Surkhab district of Tabriz in Iran. It was built by Tahmaseb Dolatshahi in the mid-1970s while he was the Secretary of Arts and Cultures of East Azarbaijan. On the east side of Sayyed Hamzeh's grave and Ghaem Magham's grave, there is a graveyard containing the graves of important poets, mystics, scientists and well-known people of Tabriz. The Mausoleum was first mentioned by the medieval historian Hamdollah Mostowfi in his '' Nozhat ol-Gholub''. Hamdollah mentions it being located in what, at the time, was the Surkhab district of Tabriz. Since the 1970s, there have been attempts to renovate the graveyard area. Some work has been carried out like the construction of a new symbolic building on this site. The first p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tabriz
Tabriz ( fa, تبریز ; ) is a city in northwestern Iran, serving as the capital of East Azerbaijan Province. It is the List of largest cities of Iran, sixth-most-populous city in Iran. In the Quri Chay, Quru River valley in Iran's historic Azerbaijan (Iran), Azerbaijan region between long ridges of volcanic cones in the Sahand and Eynali mountains, Tabriz's elevation ranges between above sea level. The valley opens up into a plain that gently slopes down to the eastern shores of Lake Urmia, to the west. With cold winters and temperate summers, Tabriz is considered a summer resort. It was named World Carpet Weaving City by the World Crafts Council in October 2015 and Exemplary Tourist City of 2018 by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation. With a population of over 1.7 million (2016), Tabriz is the largest economic hub and metropolitan area in northwest Iran. The population is bilingual, speaking Azerbaijani language, Azerbaijani and Persian. Tabriz is a major heavy industrie ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Qatran Tabrizi
Qatran Tabrizi ( fa, قطران تبریزی; 1009–1014 – after 1088) was a Persian writer, who is considered to have been one of the leading poets in 11th-century Iran. A native of the northwestern region of Azarbaijan, he spent all of his life there as well as in the neighbouring region of Transcaucasia, mainly serving as a court poet under the local dynasties of the Rawadids and Shaddadids. Background Qatran was born between 1009 and 1014 in Shadiabad, near the city of Tabriz in the northwestern region of Azarbaijan. Shadiabad is mentioned as his hometown in one of his verses, which dismisses other accounts, which calls him by the ''nisbas'' of Tirmidhi, Jabali, Jili, Urmawi, Ajali. According to the 15th-century Timurid-era biographer Dawlatshah Samarqandi, the name of Qatran's father was Mansur, but this is not supported by earlier sources. Qatran is given the epithet of "Adudi" in several sources, which has been suggested to be a corruption of Azdi, the name of an Arab ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani
Zu'l Fiqar Shirvani (died c. 1291) was a Persian poet of the Ilkhanid-era. His ''divan'' consists of 9,000 verses. Mohammad Dabirsiaqi / ''Encyclopædia Iranica'' notes that "he was generally recognized as a master of versification". Biography Zu'l-Fiqar born to a certain Sadr al-Din Ali. He was patronized by Atabeg Yusofshah I of the Fazluya branch of the Atabegs of Lorestan. Zu'l-Fiqar dedicated several panegyric odes to Yusofshah, and also wrote similar poems for Ilkhanid ruler Gaykhatu, the Qara-Khitai ''amir'' Jalal al-Din Soyurgatmesh (who ruled in Kerman), and Padishah Khatun (who succeeded Soyurgatmesh in Kerman). Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani's tomb is located in Maqbaratoshoara, in Tabriz, northwestern Iran. Works According to Mohammad Dabirsiaqi / ''Encyclopædia Iranica'', Zu'l-Fiqar Shirvani's poems have a "charming, lyrical quality". Among his "more important works", one finds the ''Mafatih ol-kalam va madayeh ol-keram'', dedicated to Khvajeh Mohammad Mastari (a vizier of the I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Zahir-al-Din Faryabi
Zahir-al-Din Abu-al-Fazl Tahir ibn Muhammad ( fa, ظهیرالدّین ابوالفضل طاهر بن محمد) mostly known as Zahir Faryabi ( fa, ظهیر فاریابی) was a 12th-century Persian poet.J.T.P. de Bruijn, "FĀRYĀBĪ, ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN ABU’L-FAŻL ṬĀHER" in Encyclopedia Iranica He was born in Faryab (in today's Afghanistan). His works mostly consist of Qasidas for several Seljuq Emirs. He died in 1201 CE in Tabriz. He dedicated at least one poem to the Shirvanshah Akhsitan I Akhsitan I (also spelled Akhsatan; fa, اخستان یکم, Aḵestān) was the Shirvanshah after 1160, and thought to have reigned until the years 1197–1203/04. He was the son and successor of Manuchihr III (). His mother was Tamar, a Geor ... (). References and notes References * *Jan Rypka, ''History of Iranian Literature''. Reidel Publishing Company. 1968 . *J.T.P. de Bruijn, "FĀRYĀBĪ, ẒAHĪR-AL-DĪN ABU’L-FAŻL ṬĀHER" in Encyclopædia Iranic* {{Authority contr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Assar Tabrizi
Assar Tabrizi (died in 1377 or 1382) was a Persian poet from Tabriz, who served as one of the panegyrists of the Jalayirid ruler Shaykh Uways Jalayir (). He is principally known for his poem ''Mihr u Mushtari'', which was completed in 1376. Biography Assar was born in Tabriz under the Ilkhanate. He studied astronomy with Abd al-Samad Tabrizi, and Sufism with Shaykh Majd al-Din Sisi. Following the death of Abu Sa'id Bahadur Khan () in 1335, the Ilkhanate fell. The northwestern region of Azerbaijan was soon captured by the Jalayirids, who were based in Baghdad. Assar became one of the panegyrists of the Jalayirid ruler Shaykh Uways Jalayir (), dedicating some ''qasidas'' (odes) to him. In his poem ''Mihr u Mushtari'', Assar says that he disliked writing panegyrics, rarely reciting the ones he had written. The poem, entitled ''Ishq-nama'', but commonly known as ''Mihr u Mushtari'', was composed in 1376, and is the most famous work of Assar. It was translated into Turkish twice, onc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Khaqani
Afzal al-Dīn Badīl ibn ʿAlī ibn ʿOthmān, commonly known as Khāqānī ( fa, خاقانی, , – 1199), was a major Persian poet and prose-writer. He was born in Transcaucasia in the historical region known as Shirvan, where he served as an ode-writer to the Shirvanshahs. His fame most securely rests upon the qasidas collected in his '' Divān'', and his autobiographical travelogue ''Tohfat al-ʿErāqayn''. He is also notable for his exploration of the genre that later became known as ''habsiyāt'' ("prison poetry"). Life Khaqani was born into the family of a carpenter in Shirvan. Khaqani's mother was originally a slave-girl of Nestorian Christian faith who had converted to Islam. According to Khaqani, she was a descendant of "the great Philippus", which some scholars such as Minorsky (1945) have interpreted as meaning Marcus Julius Philippus. Khaqani lost his father at an early age and was brought up by his uncle, Kāfi-al-Din ʿOmar, a physician. Later in life, Kha ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anvari
Anvari (1126–1189), full name Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mohammad Khavarani or Awhad ad-Din 'Ali ibn Mahmud ( fa, اوحدالدین علی ابن محمد انوری) was a Persian poet. Anvarī was born in Abivard (now in Turkmenistan) and died in Balkh, Khorāsān (now in Afghanistan).''Encyclopædia Britannica''Online Edition 2007/ref> He studied science and literature at the collegiate institute in Toon (now Ferdows, Iran), becoming a famous astronomer as well as a poet. Anvari's poems were collected in a Deewan, and contains panegyrics, eulogies, satire, and others. His elegy "Tears of Khorasan", translated into English in 1789, is considered to be one of the most beautiful poems in Persian literature. ''The Cambridge History of Iran'' calls Anvari "one of the greatest figures in Persian literature". Despite their beauty, his poems often required much help with interpretation, as they were often complex and difficult to understand. Anvari's panegyric in honour of the Seljuk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Asadi Tusi
Abu Nasr Ali ibn Ahmad Asadi Tusi ( fa, ابونصر علی بن احمد اسدی طوسی; – 1073) was a Persian poet, linguist and author. He was born at the beginning of the 11th century in Tus, Iran, in the province of Khorasan, and died in the late 1080s in Tabriz. Asadi Tusi is considered an important Persian poet of the Iranian national epics. His best-known work is ''Garshaspnameh'', written in the style of the ''Shahnameh''. Life Little is known about Asadi's life. Most of the Khorasan province was under violent attack by Turkish groups; many intellectuals fled, and those who remained generally lived in seclusion. Asadi spent his first twenty years in Ṭūs. From about 1018 to 1038 AD, he was a poet at the court of the Daylamite Abū Naṣr Jastān. Here, in 1055–56, Asadi copied Abū Manṣūr Mowaffaq Heravī's ''Ketāb al-abnīa al-adwīa''. He later went to Nakhjavan and completed his seminal work, the ''Garshāsp-nama'' (dedicated to Abu Dolaf, ruler of Nakh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Humam-i Tabrizi
Humam-i Tabrizi ( fa, همام الدین تبریزی; 1238/39 – 1314/15), was a Persian Sufi poet of the Ilkhanate era. He was one of the most distinguished figures of his time due to his poetry, teachings, piety, and Sufi spirituality. Humam spent most of his life in the city of Tabriz, where he became an influential figure. He became close to the Juvayni family, who lent him political and cultural protection, and helped him establish a ''khanqah'' (Sufi lodge) in Tabriz. Following the execution of his Juvayni patron Shams al-Din Juvayni in 1284, Humam managed to find support amongst other political figures, such as Rashid al-Din Hamadani. Humam died at the age of 78, and was buried in the Sorkhab district of Tabriz. Most of his poetry was in the form of a ''ghazal'', and followed the same style and tone of that of his contemporary Saadi Shirazi. He also wrote two ''masnavis'' (poem in rhyming couplets), the ''Suhbat-nama'' and ''Kitab-i mathnaviyyat''. Biography Details re ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Aziz Khan Mokri
Aziz Khan Mokri (also spelled Aziz Khan Mukri; fa, عزیزخان مکری; 1792 – 1871) was an Iranian military officer and grandee, who occupied high offices under the Qajar ''shah'' Naser al-Din Shah (). He served as the commander-in-chief of the army from 1853 to 1857. A native of Sardasht, Aziz Khan belonged to the Kurdish Mokri tribe. He spent his early career in the sixth regiment (''fawj-e sheshom'') of Azerbaijan, which he led as '' sarhang'' during the siege of Herat in 1837–1839. Dismissed for some time following his unsuccessful endeavors in the Herat operation, Aziz Khan was later appointed the consultant of Fars. There he eventually rose up to the position of ''sarhang'' of the fourth regiment of Tabriz, which was stationed in Fars. On 8 August 1853, Aziz Khan was promoted to ''sardar-e koll-e asaker'' (commander-in-chief of the army). Aziz Khan later became a victim of the machinations of the grand vizier Mirza Aqa Khan Nuri, and was a result dismissed by th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
