Baba Taher's Mausoleum

Baba Tahir , also spelled as Baba Taher, (in Persian: باباطاهر) was a Persian poet who lived in the 11th century. Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 109 KB) Summary BabaTaher_Mausoleum Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File linksMetadata Download high resolution version (480x640, 109 KB) Summary BabaTaher_Mausoleum Licensing File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Persian (known variously as: فارسی Fārsi or پارسی Pārsi, local name in Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, Tajik, a Central Asian dialect, or Dari, another local name in Tajikistan and Afghanistan) is a language spoken in Iran, Tajikistan, Afghanistan, Uzbekistan, Bahrain, Iraq, Azerbaijan, Armenia, Southern Russia, neighboring countries, and elsewhere. ... Persian literature (in Persian: ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... As a means of recording the passage of time, the 11th century was that century which lasted from 1001 to 1100. ...

Biography

Baba Taher is known as one of the most revered and respectable early poets in Persian literature. Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan, the capital city of the Hamedan Province in Iran. His nickname, Oryan (the Naked), suggests that he was a wandering dervish, or mystic. Legend tells that the poet, an illiterate woodcutter, attended lectures at a religious school, where he was not welcome by his fellow-students. The dates of his birth and death are unknown. One source indicates that he died in 1019. If this is accurate, then Baba Taher is a contemporary of Ferdowsi and Pour Sina (Avicenna) and an immediate precursor of Omar Khayyam. Another source reports that he lived between 1000 and 1055, which is most unlikely. Reliable research notes speculate that Baba Taher lived for seventy-five years. Persian literature (in Persian: ) spans two and a half millennia, though much of the pre-Islamic material has been lost. ... Avicennas tomb in Hamedan Hamadan or Hamedan ( Persian: همدان ) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. ... This page is about city of Hamedan. ... A nickname is a short, clever, cute, derogatory, or otherwise substitute name for a person or things real name (for example, Tom is short for Thomas). ... The word Dervish, especially in European languages, refers to members of Sufi Muslim ascetic religious fraternities, known for their extreme poverty and austerity, similar to mendicant friars. ... Look up Mystic in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... A legend (Latin, legenda, things to be read) is a narrative of human actions that are perceived both by teller and listeners to take place within human history and to possess certain qualities that give the tale verisimilitude. ... Events Toi invasion: Jurchen pirates invade Kyushu. ... Ferdowsi Tousi (فردوسی طوسی in Persian) (more commonly transliterated Firdausi, Ferdosi or Ferdusi) (935–1020) is considered to be one of the greatest Persian poets to have ever lived. ... The works of Avicenna, the greatest of the medieval Islamic physicians, played a crucial role in the European Renaissance. ... Tomb of Omar Khayam, Neishapur, Iran. ... // Events World Population 300 million. ... Events January 11 - Theodora becomes Reigning Empress of the Eastern Roman Empire. ...

Poetry

Baba Taher poems are recited to the present day all over Iran accompanied with Sitar (in Persian: Seh Tar), three stringed viol or lute. The quatrains (Dubayti or two-bayt metre poems) of Baba Taher are also written in local accents such as Mazandarani. They say Pahlaviat to these kinds of poems and they are very ancient. Baba Taher songs were originally read in Pahlavi, Luri, Kurdish and Hamadani dialects, taking their present form in the course of time. The quatrains of Baba Taher have a more amorous and mystical connotation rather than philosophical. Premla Shahane playing a sitar, 1927 The sitar is a Hindustani classical instrument. ... A quatrain is a poem or a stanza within a poem that consists of four lines. ... Mazandarani or Tabari is an ancient Iranian language of the northwestern branch. ... The Pahlavi script was used broadly in the Sasanid Persian Empire to write down Middle Persian for secular, as well as religious purposes. ... Luri is a dialect of Persian language. ... Kurdish may refer to: The Kurdish people The Kurdish language This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ...

Classsical Persian Music is based on Persian Poetry and Baba Thaer's poems are the weight that carries a major portion of this music. A systematic divison into Dastgah has been a tradition. Baba Ther covers Shoor and in particular Gooshe of Dashtestani, Choopani and Deylaman.

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Tomb

His tomb 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 reconstructed in 1970. A tomb is a small building (or vault) for the remains of the dead, with walls, a roof, and (if it is to be used for more than one corpse) a door. ... Avicennas tomb in Hamedan Hamadan or Hamedan ( Persian: همدان ) is the capital city of Hamadan Province of Iran. ... Pillar is a Christian rock band. ... The Eiffel Tower Fire-observation watchtower in Kostroma, Russia. ... 1970 (MCMLXX) was a common year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1970 calendar). ...

See also

• List of Persian poets and authors

The list is not comprehensive but is continuously being expanded, and is not geographically of what today is Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Iraq, Uzbekistan, Pakistan and India. ...

References

• Baba Tahir Oryan. URL accessed on October 24, 2005.
• A Research Note on Baba Taher Oryan. URL accessed on November 27, 2005.: By Manouchehr Saadat Noury
• E.G. Browne. Literary History of Persia. (Four volumes, 2,256 pages, and twenty-five years in the writing). 1998. ISBN 0-700-70406-X
• Jan Rypka, History of Iranian Literature. Reidel Publishing Company. ASIN B-000-6BXVT-K

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External links

• poems by Baba Tahir (Persian)