Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida, or Sheida-ye-Esfahani (1873 – 1949), was an Iranian

sufi Sufism ( ar, ''aṣ-ṣūfiyya''), also known as Tasawwuf ( ''at-taṣawwuf''), is a mystic body of religious practice, found mainly within Sunni Islam but also within Shia Islam, which is characterized by a focus on Islamic spirituality, ...

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and

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. Sheida was born in 1873 in Shahre-Kord near

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. His father Mirza Es-hagh Dehkordi, was the

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of Shahre Kord and the province of Chahar Mahaal o Bakhtiari. The family moved to Isfahan after Mirza Es-hagh was killed. Sheida attended Sadr School with his cousin Ayatollah

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and finished his traditional studies in

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, usul, Persian and Arabic literature, and

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under the supervision of scholars such as

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and Ayatollah Akhond Kashi; he graduated as an

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, something that he never used for his future career. His close friends were known

s of the time such as the Khatonabadi family. Sheida published one of the first four newspapers in Iran, the '' Baladieh Esfahan''. Later he started publishing the ''Daneshkadeh-e-Esfahan'', and he published a total of twenty-one issues. He spent all of his inheritance and his income for his journals and weekly meeting of poems in city of Isfahan.

References

*''Arbab Marifat'' 1996, published by Isfahan Municipality *''Divan Sheida'' 2001, 1873 births 19th-century Iranian poets Iranian journalists 1949 deaths 20th-century Iranian poets {{Iran-writer-stub