Hazīn Lāhījī (1692,
Esfahan
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) ( fa, حزین لاهیجی), is the pen-name of Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb ibn Abd Āllah, also known as Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, Mohammad ibn Abi Tāleb Gilāni and Sheikh Mohammad Ali Hazin Lāhiji. He was an Iranian poet and scholar, born into an eminent family in Esfahan. His ancestors were scholars and landowners from
Gilān (see
Lāhijān). In 1734 he immigrated to India where he contributed to the Persianization of the ruling elites. He regarded the Persian of the Indian writers with much contempt.
Sarfaraz Khan Khatak, ''Shaikh Muhammad Ali Hazin: His Life, Time and Works'' (Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore, 1944). See: ''Urdu
in the Pre-modern Period: Synthesis or Particularism?'' ] (Columbia University). Hazin Lāhiji is considered to be one of the most prominent scholars of the Safavid era whose knowledge extended over the theological learning of his time as well as Natural Science, a fact testified by his extant writings.
References
Further reading
* John R. Perry, ''Hazin Lāhiji, Shaikh Mohammad Ali B. Abi Tāleb'', Encyclopaedia Iranica
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* Muzaffar Alam and Sanjay Subrahmanyam, ''Indo-Persian Travels in the Age of Discoveries, 1400-1800'', 416 p. (Cambridge University Press, 2007), page 229 and further.
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* Sarfaraz Khan Khatak, ''Shaikh Muḥammad 'Alī Ḥazīn: His Life, Time and Works'' (Shaikh Muhammad Ashraf, Lahore
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, 1944).
* Sarfaraz Khan Khatak, ''Aḥwāl wa Āthār-i Ḥazīn Lāhījī'' (احوال و آثار حزین لاهیجی), Translated & Edited by S. Naqi Abbas (Kaify), Iran Culture House, New Delhi, 2015
* Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, ''Rasā'el-e Hazin Lāhiji'' (رسائل حزین لاهیجی — Treatises of Hazin Lāhiji), edited by Ali 'Owjabi, Nāser Bāqeri Bidhendi, Eskandar Esfandiāri and Abdolhossein Mahdavi, 340 p. (''Mirās Maktoob'' Publishing House, Tehran
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, 1998).
* Mohammad Ali ibn Abi Tāleb Hazin Lāhiji, ''Fat'h-os-Sobol'' (فتح السبل — Introduction to ''Modi Operandi''), edited by Nāser Bāqeri Bidhendi, 217 p. (''Mirās Maktoob'' Publishing House, Tehran, 1996).
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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hazin Lahiji
17th-century Iranian poets
Persian-language poets
Writers from Isfahan
18th-century Iranian writers
1692 births
1766 deaths
People from Lahijan
Iranian emigrants to the Mughal Empire
18th-century Iranian poets