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Ṣāʾib

Persian poet
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Also known as: Ṣāʾib of Eṣfahān, Ṣāʾib of Tabriz, Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿAlī Ṣāʾib
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Mīrzā Muḥammad ʿalī Ṣāʾib
Also called:
Ṣāʾib Of Tabriz, orṢāʾib Of Eṣfahān
Born:
1601/02, Tabrīz, Iran
Died:
c. 1677
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Ṣāʾib (born 1601/02, Tabrīz, Iran—died c. 1677) was a Persian poet, one of the greatest masters of a form of classical Arabic and Persian lyric poetry characterized by rhymed couplets and known as the ghazel. Ṣāʾib was educated in Eṣfahān, and in about 1626/27 he traveled to India, where he was received into the court of Shāh Jahān. He stayed for a time in Kabul and in Kashmir, returning home after several years abroad. After his return Shāh ʿAbbas II bestowed upon him the title King of Poets. Ṣāʾib’s reputation is based primarily on some 300,000 couplets, including his epic ...(100 of 139 words)

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