''Heydar Babaya Salam'' ( az, حیدربابایه سلام) is an
Azerbaijani poetical work by
Mohammad Hossein Shahriar, a famous
Iranian Azerbaijani
Iranian Azerbaijanis (; az, ایران آذربایجانلیلاری, italics=no ), also known as Iranian Azeris, Iranian Turks, Persian Turks or Persian Azerbaijanis, are Iranians of Azerbaijani ethnicity who may speak the Azerbaijani lan ...
poet. Published in 1954 in
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 Aze ...
, it is about Shahriar's childhood and his memories of his village
Khoshgenab near
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 Aze ...
. ''Heydar Baba'' is the name of a mountain overlooking the village.
In ''Heydar Babaya Salam'' Shahriar narrates a nostalgia from his childhood in a village in
Iranian Azerbaijan
Azerbaijan or Azarbaijan ( fa, آذربایجان, ''Āzarbāijān'' ; az-Arab, آذربایجان, ''Āzerbāyjān'' ), also known as Iranian Azerbaijan, is a historical region in northwestern Iran that borders Iraq, Turkey, the Nakhchivan ...
.
In describing Heydar Baba, Shahryar uses the Azeri Turkish word regime toward
Azerbaijanis
Azerbaijanis (; az, Azərbaycanlılar, ), Azeris ( az, Azərilər, ), or Azerbaijani Turks ( az, Azərbaycan Türkləri, ) are a Turkic people living mainly in northwestern Iran and the Republic of Azerbaijan. They are the second-most numer ...
. Here, in every part of Azerbaijan, a Heydar Baba rises up and becomes a gigantic wall that supports and protects Azerbaijan against its foes.
[Hadi Sultan-Qurraie. Modern Azeri Literature. Identity, Gender and Politics in the Poetry of Moj́uz. — Indiana University Ottoman and Modern Turkish Studies Publications, 2003. — P. 221. — ]
Sources
Notes
English and Turkish Translation of Heydar Babaya Salam (University of Michigan)
*''Salam bih Haydar Baba'' and ''Salam bé Heydar Baba'': in Azerbaijani, with
Persian
Persian may refer to:
* People and things from Iran, historically called ''Persia'' in the English language
** Persians, the majority ethnic group in Iran, not to be conflated with the Iranic peoples
** Persian language, an Iranian language of the ...
translation by Bahman Fursi (1993) - See
Copac library catalogueŞəhriyar - Heydər Babaya salam-1 (audio)
1954 poems
Azerbaijani poetry
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