Seyed Taher Sabahi (born July 21, 1940) is an Iranian-born

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, journalist, author and lecturer born in

Tehran Tehran (; fa, تهران ) is the largest city in Tehran Province and the capital of Iran. With a population of around 9 million in the city and around 16 million in the larger metropolitan area of Greater Tehran, Tehran is the most popul ...

. Besides being a carpet dealer in

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since 1961, in 1993 Taher Sabahi founded the quarterly magazine ''Ghereh'', ''International Carpet & Textile Review'', a quarterly magazine published in English and Italian. Since then he has been the editor of the magazine, and he has also been active in the publishing world, writing many books on

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Life

Born in Tehran to an Iranian Azerbaijan family, Sabahi moved to Rome in September 1961. Sabahi attended medical school in the

University of Bologna The University of Bologna ( it, Alma Mater Studiorum – Università di Bologna, UNIBO) is a public research university in Bologna, Italy. Founded in 1088 by an organised guild of students (''studiorum''), it is the oldest university in continuo ...

's Faculty of Pharmacy. During 1972 he was recognized as an expert in Eastern (particularly Iranian) rugs and rug making.

Bibliography

Sabahi has written over twenty books about Iranian Carpets, some of these are listed below – ''Tappeti d’oriente, arte e tradizione.'' De Agostini, Novara 1986 – ''Splendeurs du tapis d’orient''. Atlas, Paris 1987 – ''Vaghireh. Modelli per la tessitura dei tappeti.'' Karta, Firenze 1987 – ''ABC del tappeto orientale''. De Agostini, Novara 1989 – ''Qashqai. Tappeti tribali persiani.'' De Agostini, Novara 1989 – ''Kilim. Tappeti piani del Caucaso''. De Agostini, Novara 1990 – ''Orienttepiche''. Battenberg Verlag, Augsburg 1992 – ''Sumak. Tappeti piani a trama avvolta''. De Luca, Roma 1992 – ''Tülü. Tappeti a pelo lungo dell’Anatolia centrale''. CATO, Torino 1997 – ''Kerman.Cinque secoli di tappeti.'' Capricorno, Torino 2005 – ''L’arte del tappeto d’oriente''. Electa – Mondadori, Milano 2007 – ''Kilim.'' Electa – Mondadori, Milano 2011 – ''RoyalHunt. The Medallion Rug of the Poldi Pezzzoli Museum, Milan. (''English-Italian'')'' 2020 ''Libri pubblicati in Iran:'' – ''Qalin. Story and Art of rug weaving in Orient''. (Persian) Published in two volumes, by Gooya house of culture and art, Tehran – ''Qali e Iran. Persian Carpets''. (Persian – English) Published by Gooya, Tehran. – ''Kilim, Story and Art of flat weaving in Orient.'' (Persian) Published by Vijeh Nashr, Tehran – ''Savarane Shargh – Knights of the Orient.'' (Persian – English) Published by Gooya, Tehran – ''Shahsavan''. (Persian – English) Published by Vijeh Nashr, Tehran – ''Qashqai.'' (Persian – English) Published by Gooya, Tehran – ''Kerman – Five Centuries of Carpets weaving in Kerman.'' (Persian – English) Published by Matn “Farhanghestane Honar”, Tehran ''Cataloghi pubblicati in inglese – italiano:'' – ''Cavalieri d’oriente.'' De Luca, Milano 1991 – ''Samarcanda. Tappeti della via della seta.'' Rumor, Vicenza 1995 – ''Cina. Tappeti antichi del celeste impero.'' Bolis Spa, Bergamo 1998 – ''Shahsavan

Jajim Jajim (; ; ; ) also spelled as gelims, or Jajim-bafi, is a handmade, flat-woven textile made of colored natural fiber which is created and used in the majority of villages and rural areas of Iran. Other locations the Jajim is found include Azerbai ...

''. Musumeci editore, Aosta 1998 – ''Anatolia. “''quivi si fanno li sovrani tappeti del mondo più begli''”''. Rumor, Vicenza 2000 – ''Tibet. Rugs of the Roof of the World.'' Ghereh publications, Torino 2001 ''Memberships:'' · Academic Committee for the International Conference on Oriental Carpets (ICOC) · Rotary International, Turin · Member of the board of directors of the "Persian hand-knotted carpet Think Thank", Teheran · Expert and examining member of the Court of Turin, carpets and textiles section

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Sabahi, Taher People from Tehran Iranian art dealers 1940 births Iranian non-fiction writers Iranian journalists Living people University of Bologna alumni University of Turin alumni