Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida
Mirza Abbas Khan Sheida, or Sheida-ye-Esfahani (1873 – 1949), was an Iranian
sufi, poet and Journalist
.
Sheida was born in 1873 in
Chahar Mahaal o Bakhtiari
. The family moved to Isfahan after Mirza Es-hagh was killed.
Sheida attended Sadr School with his cousin Ayatollah
usul, Persian and Arabic literature, and philosophy under the supervision of scholars such as Jahangir Khan Ghashghaei and Ayatollah Akhond Kashi; he graduated as an Ayatollah
, something that he never used for his future career.
His close friends were known
sufis 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,
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