Layeq Sherali (1941–2000, in

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: Лоиқ Шералӣ/لائق شیرعلی, sometimes also Romanised as Laeq or Laiq or Loiq) was a

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poet, Iranologist and one of the most celebrated Persian literary figures of

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. Loiq Sher-Ali had expertise in classical Persian poetry. The influence of

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, Khayyam and Molana Jalaleddin-e Balkhi is evident in Shir-Ali's works. He also translated several literary master pieces into Persian. He was the head of Tajik-Persian Language International Foundation in Middle Asia and he was called as Shah-Poet of Tajikistan. A chosen collection of his works is published in Iran, 1994. Another collection, "Rakh's Spirit" is published in Iran, 1999, by Mirzo Shakurzoda.

Poetry

An excerpt from one of Sher-Ali's most famous poems, about three years before his death: یکی گفتی تو ایرانی، دیگر گفتی تو تاجیکی Яке гуфтӣ ту эронӣ, дигар гуфтӣ ту тоҷикӣ جدا از اصل خود میرد کسی مارا جدا کردست Ҷудо аз асли худ мирад касе моро ҷудо кардаст English: ''Once you said "You're Iranian," then you said "You are Tajik"'' ''May he die separated from his own origin, who has separated us''

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Shir-Ali, combining old and new styles in Persian poetry
(BBC Persian) Shir-Ali Layeq Shir-Ali Layeq 2000 deaths 20th-century Tajikistani poets Tajikistani male writers Shir-Ali Layeq Iranologists People from Sughd Region Members of the Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union {{Tajikistan-bio-stub

Poetry

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