Saeb tabrizi

Saib Tabrizi was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets.
Saib Tabrizi was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ghazal.
Ṣāʾeb TABRIZI, Mirzā Moḥammad ʿAli (b.

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Saib Tabrizi

Iranian poet (1789–1846)

Saib Tabrizi (Persian: صائب تبریزی, romanized: Ṣāʾib Tabrīzī, میرزا محمّدعلی صائب تبریزی, Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib, Azerbaijani: صائب تبریزی) was an Iranian poet, regarded as one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets, known as the ghazal. He also established the "Indian style" (sabk-i Hind) in the literature of his native language, Azerbaijani, in which he is known to have written 17 ghazals and molammaʿs.

Saib was born in Tabriz, and educated in Isfahan and at some time around 1626, he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shah Jahan. He stayed for a time in Kabul and in Kashmir, returning home after several years abroad. After his return, the emperor of Persia, Shah Abbas II, bestowed upon him the title King of Poets.

Saib's reputation is based primarily on some 300,000 couplets, including his epic poem Qandahār-nāma (“The Campaign Against Qandahār”). (The city of Qandahār or Kandahar in today's Afghanistan was in Saib Tabriz

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TEHRAN-The House of Humanities Thinkers in Tehran will host a commemoration ceremony for the great Persian Poet of the 17th century Saeb Tabrizi on Monday.

Mahmoud Fotouhi Rudmajani, a professor of Persian Literature and Language; Houman Yousefdehi, a researcher in the field of history and literature; and Bahman Banihashemi, a poet and literary critic will speak at the event, ISNA reported.

Saeb (1601-1677) was one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets and known as the ghazel.

He was born with the name Mirza Mohammad Ali in Tabriz during the Safavid era. Saeb's father was the wealthy and prominent merchant Mirza Abd-al-Rahim, while his paternal uncle was Shams-al-Din of Tabriz, skilled in calligraphy, for which he received the nickname Shirin Qalam (literally meaning Sweet Pen).

As a result of attacks by the Ottoman Empire, many families, including those of Saeb’s, were evacuated from Tabriz by Shah Abbas I, who moved them to the Abbasabad neighborhood in Isfahan. It was in this location that Saeb spent

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ṢĀʾEB TABRIZI

ṢĀʾEB TABRIZI, Mirzā Moḥammad ʿAli (b. Tabriz, ca. 1000/1592; d. Isfahan, 1086-87/1676), celebrated Persian poet of the later Safavid period. The exact year of Ṣāʾeb’s birth is unknown, but an allusion in one of his ḡazals to turning eighty suggests that he was born sometime in the last decade of the sixteenth century. He was a privileged child of the mercantile elite. His father, Mirzā ʿAbd-al-Raḥim, was a successful merchant, and his paternal uncle, Šams-al-Din of Tabriz, earned the sobriquet Širin Qalam (‘Sweet Pen’) for his calligraphic talents. Ṣāʾeb’s family was among those evacuated from Tabriz by ʿAbbās I as a response to Ottoman incursions and settled in the neighborhood of ʿAbbās-ābād in Isfahan. It is here that Ṣāʾeb was educated and began his literary career. As a young man, he made the pilgrimage to Mecca and the Shiʿite shrines in Najaf and Kerbala.

Like many aspiring Persian poets of the age, Ṣāʾeb felt that the Mughal courts of India offered the best prospects for the furtherance of his literary career. He