Baba Tahir

Baba Tahir

Baba Tahir, born c. 1000 in Loristan or Hamadan, Iran and died after 1055 in Hamadan, was one of the most revered early poets in Persian literature.

Most of his life is clouded in mystery. He probably lived in Hamadan. His byname, ʿOryān (“The Naked”), suggests that he was a wandering dervish, or mystic. Legend tells that the poet, an illiterate woodcutter, attended lectures at a religious college, where he was ridiculed by the scholars and students because of his lack of education and sophistication. After experiencing a vision in which philosophic truths were revealed to him, he returned to the school and spoke of what he had seen, astounding those present by his wisdom. His poetry is written in a dialect of Persian, and he is most famous

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