Baba Tahir

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Baba Tahir of Hamedan
Abu-Sa'id Abul-Khayr, Bayazid Bastami
InfluencedRumi, Hafez, Jami, Omar Khayyam, Nizami Ganjavi, and many other later mystic poets
Tradition or genre
Mystic poetry

Baba Tahir or Baba Taher Oryan Hamadani (

L. P. Elwell-Sutton he probably wrote in the Hamadani dialect, adding: "Most traditional sources call it loosely Luri, while the name commonly applied from an early date to verses of this kind, Fahlaviyat, presumably implies that they were thought to be in a language related to the Middle Persian language. Rouben Abrahamian however found a close affinity with the dialect spoken at the present time by the Jews of Hamadan."[4] According to The Cambridge History of Iran, Baba Tahir spoke a certain Persian dialect.[5]

Biography

Baba Tahir Mausoleum in Hamadan
Old mausoleum of Baba Tahir in Hamadan

Baba Tahir is known as one of the most revered early poets in Persian literature. Little is known of his life. He was born in a

L. P. Elwell-Sutton
: "He could be described as the first great poet of Sufi love in Persian literature. In the last two decades his do-baytis have often been put to music".

Poetry

Baba Tahir's poems are recited to the present day all over Iran accompanied by the

Pahlaviat and it is very ancient. The quatrains of Baba Tahir have a more amorous and mystical connotation rather than philosophical. Many of Baba Tahir's poems are of the do-baytī style, a form of Persian quatrains, which some scholars regard as having affinities with Middle Persian verses.[4]

Writing

Attributed to him is a work by the name Kalemat-e Qesaar, a collection of nearly 400 aphorisms in Arabic, which has been the subject of commentaries, one allegedly by Ayn-al-Qozat Hamadani.[4] An example of such a saying is one where Baba Tahir ties knowledge with gnosis: "Knowledge is the guide to gnosis, and when gnosis has come the vision of knowledge lapses and there remain only the movements of knowledge to gnosis"; "knowledge is the crown of the gnostic, and gnosis is the crown of knowledge"; "whoever witnesses what is decreed by God remains motionless and powerless."

Tomb

His tomb, designed by Mohsen Foroughi, is located near the northern entrance of the city of Hamadan in Western Iran, in a park, surrounded by flowers and winding paths. The structure consists of twelve external pillars surrounding a central tower. It was constructed in 1970.

See also

Notes

  1. ^ "BĀBĀ ṬĀHER ʿORYĀN – Encyclopaedia Iranica". www.iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  2. Encyclopedia of Islam
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  3. ^ a b "The Great Islamic Encyclopedia Project". Retrieved 2019-10-31.
  4. ^
    L. P. Elwell-Sutton. "BĀBĀ ṬĀHER ʿORYĀN". Encyclopædia Iranica
    . Iranicaonline.org. Retrieved 2013-10-31.
  5. ^ Bosworth 1975, p. 610.
  6. ISSN 1875-9831
    .

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