Mohammad-Taqi Bahar

Mohammad-Taqi Bahar was born in Mashhad in 1886, the son of the official poet of the shrine of Imam Reza, whose title he received after his father's death, in 1904, through the favour of Mozaffar ed-Din Shah. Having joined the constitutionalists at the age of twenty, he founded newspapers, was several times a deputy, and was imprisoned and banished on several occasions, and he regarded those years as the most fruitful of his life. A professor at the University of Tehran, he wrote a history of Persian prose in three volumes and edited old chronicles. Minister of Public Instruction in 1946, he died of tuberculosis in April 1951.

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• Poetryدیوان بهارMohammad-Taqi Bahar · 1956not translated into EnglishLiterature